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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three Flash Stories by Mandira Pattnaik
During the Festival, we’re forbidden to eat anything except fruits.
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Writing a Poem as An Act of Faith: A Conversation with Yalie Saweda Kamara
Each day returning to this book teaches me something else. It teaches me about the height of my optimism.
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What To Read When The World Is On Fire
Last year was officially the hottest year on record. Deadly wildfires tore through Maui and Canada. Orange skies hung over New York City full of smoke and ash. Extreme floods swept through Greece, Italy, and other parts of Europe. Historic…
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Let it tremble in riotous beauty: Ana Portnoy Brimmer’s To Love an Island
Our love should make us quake, quake like a storm, a storm that tears down “the whole blood-marbled edifice.”
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I Had to Hold a Whole Ocean in My Hands: A Conversation with Ani Gjika
To be human means to be forever shifting with the emotions of the day, of the hour. We are never just one thing.
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The Gravity of Displacement: Balsam Karam’s The Singularity
A refugee tale is always about the children, not least because they are the tellers.
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Reversing Reversal: A Conversation with Lisa Olstein
I’m interested in complexity. I’m interested in the fact that very few things are simple.
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Making Absurd Logic Salient: A Conversation with Alexander Sammartino
I like to think of the short novel as the thin elephant; as an artistic form, it interests me because, by definition, it exists in a state of tension.
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Our Anesthetized Culture: Kyle Chayka’s Filterworld
You can probably describe your algorithmic content with a comical level of detail—the unsolicited stuff you’re targeted with each time you go online. Mine includes nail art, vegan-alternative recipes for candy bars, and “get ready with me” videos of women…
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Counting
It’s not the first time you do it, but it is the first time you get caught.
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Black Poetics: A Conversation with Dr. Taylor Byas
We want you to learn from this book, be curious, and leave with a desire to learn more and an idea of where to go to find what you want to know.
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What to Read When Falling in Love Hurts
Falling in love for the first time or millionth time—or potentially final time—is never for the faint of heart. Love is messy, reckless, changeable. Love can be unkind, selfish, gut-wrenching, and yet it is capable of producing deep beauty and…