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    Finding A New “Happily Ever After”: Susan Ostrov’s Loveland

    But for so many of us, love is “a puzzle with jig-sawed edges, and all we have are scattered, often missing, pieces of ourselves.

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    Rumpus Original Fiction: What’s It Like?

    It was all wrong, though. All wrong.

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    On Seeking the Woman Within: A Conversation with Lyn Patterson

    My story is just one, but our unique perspectives contribute to creating a richer and more complex picture of our collective humanity.

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    August Spotlight: Letters in the Mail

    Letters in the Mail from Ricky Ray and Maggie Nye!

  • On People Pleasing
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    Sanata Nacro
    Jul 18, 2024

    On People Pleasing

    I learned to smile even when I didn’t feel like it, to reassure people and make them feel at ease.

  • How to Get Unstuck: A Conversation with Julia Phillips
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    Svetlana Satchkova
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    How to Get Unstuck: A Conversation with Julia Phillips

    When danger comes close to you, how do you react to it? How do you push back against it or cooperate with it?

  • Demeter on the Jersey Shore
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    Liza Katz Duncan
    Jul 16, 2024

    Demeter on the Jersey Shore

    What to do with all this grief? What to do with all this rage?

  • The Archive as Potter’s Field: Hannah Regel’s The Last Sane Woman
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    Kassia Oset
    Jul 16, 2024

    The Archive as Potter’s Field: Hannah Regel’s The Last Sane Woman

    As the handwritten stories unfold, the lives of the two ceramicists come closer and closer.

  • Tension Is Where the Heartbeat Is: A Conversation with Dorinda Wegener
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    Amanda Hawkins
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    Tension Is Where the Heartbeat Is: A Conversation with Dorinda Wegener

    Tension is where the heartbeat is. It’s the energy of it all, the electricity, the love.

  • What to Read When You Want to be Changed by a Work of Art
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    Nicole Haroutunian
    Jul 12, 2024

    What to Read When You Want to be Changed by a Work of Art

    Some of the work is simply slowing down visitors and sustaining their attention long enough for the pieces to click together, or for their perspective to shift, or for a light bulb to—literally—go off.

  • Funny Women: The 7 Best Bloopers from the Literary Canon, Ranked
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    K.E. Flann and Emily Flake
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    Funny Women: The 7 Best Bloopers from the Literary Canon, Ranked

    Hoo-ya!

  • Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Marisa Tirado
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    Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Marisa Tirado

    More poems that make me uncomfortable / with the slant of the world! Follow it to the fold!

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