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Funny Women: Things I Wish I Could Workshop Other Than My Novel

Do I come across as a middle child with first-child energy? Would you recommend treatment for my character, and if so, from a sliding-scale social worker or a psychiatrist? Meditation or medication? Out-patient or in?

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RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT by Courtney Faye Taylor

An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club's December selection, CONCENTRATE by Courtney Faye Taylor from Graywolf Press

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Stories help us be able to be brave: Adoption and Belonging with Mariama J. Lockington

It is okay to feel more than one thing.

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Thalassophobia: The Black Boy and the Sea

I am now twenty-seven, and I still do not know how to swim.

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History Is Fluid: R.F. Kuang’s Babel

In Babel, language is a resource stolen from the mouths of native speakers.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Rapunzel House

“Don’t worry,” he says. “Give it time. It’ll grow on you.”

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The Rumpus Talks with Michael Pedersen About the Beauty of Male Friendship

An acclaimed Scottish writer and performer, Michael Pedersen is the author of two poetry collections, Play with Me and Oyster, and most recently a memoir titled Boy Friends, which celebrates…

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WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU DON’T LIKE SCARY MOVIES BUT YOUR FRIENDS’ “31 DAYS OF HORROR” POSTS ARE GIVING YOU FOMO

for the queers who love Halloween and are also scaredy-cats

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Voices On Addiction: The Hypnotist

Dad quit smoking via a hypnotist shortly before my sister Margaret was born. When I was eight or nine, he liked telling me the story of the hypnosis, sitting together on the green sofa in the living room, parallelograms of sunlight on the brown carpet.

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