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  • The Body Made Glorious in Awakening: A Conversation with Diane Gottlieb
    Interviews
    Janet Rodriguez
    Nov 22, 2023

    The Body Made Glorious in Awakening: A Conversation with Diane Gottlieb

    These are writers who didn’t want to hide anymore. Instead, they knew how important it was to share their stories.

  • Telo
    Essays
    Lena Crown
    Nov 21, 2023

    Telo

    Teh-lo: I liked the way the word felt and sounded. Small and round, like a pebble. When I mouthed it to myself, the tip of my tongue flicked the back of my teeth.

  • Organic Sins: Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming
    Reviews
    Jonah Howell
    Nov 21, 2023

    Organic Sins: Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming

    Have we made contact with the Leipzig of the late ’80s and early ’90s? Have we made contact with THAT German?

  • Facing Redaction by Way of Art: A Conversation with Arthur Kayzakian
    Interviews
    Janel Galnares
    Nov 20, 2023

    Facing Redaction by Way of Art: A Conversation with Arthur Kayzakian

    We’ve all had that feeling where we’ve felt unseen. I think that’s a big part of this book. Maybe what was taken away from us was attention.

  • What to Read When You Want to Understand Precarity
    Other
    David Janisch, Ronald L Greer II
    Nov 17, 2023

    What to Read When You Want to Understand Precarity

    American Precariat shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken and articulates the lines of our division.

  • December Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
    Other
    The Rumpus
    Nov 17, 2023

    December Spotlight: Letters in the Mail

    Our December Letters in the Mail come from Molly Crabapple and Taylor Byas.

  • The Beat Goes On
    Essays
    Debbie DeWall
    Nov 16, 2023

    The Beat Goes On

    If the average lifespan is roughly 76 years, then that one muscle, the size of a fist, beats 2,796,192,000 times. It never quits, until it quits.

  • The Rumpus Member Drive
    Other
    Aram Mrjoian
    Nov 16, 2023

    The Rumpus Member Drive

    Expanding The Rumpus’s membership program to at least 600 members is necessary for us to cover our basic operating costs and continue our mission of publishing risk-taking voices and emerging writers.

  • Permission to Write Her Story: A Conversation with Susan Kiyo Ito
    Interviews
    Susan Devan Harness
    Nov 15, 2023

    Permission to Write Her Story: A Conversation with Susan Kiyo Ito

    Each adoptee has experiences that make their story unique. It’s important to understand that adoption is not a one-size-fits-all kind of situation.

  • Identifying a Mixed Flock: Dimitri Reyes’s Papi Pichón
    Poetry, Reviews
    Basia Wilson
    Nov 14, 2023

    Identifying a Mixed Flock: Dimitri Reyes’s Papi Pichón

    Such multistoried, woven-together heritage justifies and perhaps even demands the necessity of different ways to tell an origin story.

  • What She Kept
    Essays
    Na Mee
    Nov 14, 2023

    What She Kept

    I hand-wrote my mother a letter entirely in hangul. It looked like a child wrote it, which was because a child wrote it.

  • Voices on Addiction: This is Not A Story About Sobriety
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    Iris (Yi Youn) Kim
    Nov 14, 2023

    Voices on Addiction: This is Not A Story About Sobriety

    I didn’t realize until I wrote this: my first interaction with alcohol was shrouded in secrecy.

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