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A Hypnotic Transitory Beauty Quest: A Conversation with Jackson Bliss

While many Californians are obsessed with “living in the moment,” most Asian Americans I know live in a complex cultural space where “the moment” is the superstructure and history is the base.

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Gone

His arm jerked. Every time I spoke, it happened. I wanted it to stop. I didn’t want it to stop. I kept looking up. I didn’t feel my son’s presence in his body anymore, but his body was all I could reach of him.

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The Young Girl Writes Back: Elif Batuman’s Either/Or

If she just wrote about her own life, perhaps she could produce something that rivals Portrait of a Lady. Yet none of the books she reads are actually written by women.

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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Footnotes on a love story

Before they were married, they met in a photograph.

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RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: A FAVORITE ROOM BY CHEN CHEN

An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club‘s September selection, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency by Chen Chen forthcoming from BOA Editions on September 13, 2022 Subscribe by…

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When Silences Need to Be Broken: Talking with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Language is inexact, and will always be an approximation. In my own experience of amnesia, there was a period of time where things didn't have names, and it was in that nameless, getting-to-know-something that I felt I knew it better.

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Funny Women: The Adventure of the Mistaken Right Swipe

It turns out freelance homicide detective actually is a job, and he’s super good at it.

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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Frederick Speers

suddenly / we & our dream / of humanity are / all the rage / a star or what / passes / for one

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RUMPUS BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: HYSTERIA REBOOT BY ELISSA BASSIST

An excerpt from The Rumpus Book Club's September selection, Hysterical by Elissa Bassist

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If You Eat It, It Becomes Authentic: A Conversation About Red Sauce with Ian MacAllen

There is this moment where you must first cut yourself off from doing more research because that rabbit trail goes on forever in some cases . . . You have to ask yourself, “Do I have enough?”

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The Lucky Ones

I live my life through the twin tenets of curiosity and close observation. I believe imagination and storytelling are central to our survival as a species—and yet, it’s my imagination that makes me jumpy.

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