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The Adderall Diaries – No conflict of interest
During my memoir mania, I had it in my head that the function of the memoir was to take a horrible, painful, or at least quirky experience and write a purpose into it. A memoir wasn’t a memoir unless it…
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Dispatches from a Real-Life, Full-Time Freelance Writer
Over at The Billfold, writer Nicole Dieker kicks off a new series on all aspects of life as a full-time freelancer. In her first installment, she covers the four different types of paid assignments and how her personal writing projects…
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The Alt Weekly is Dead, Long Live the Alt Weekly
How valuable are print alt weeklies? Very, Baltimore City Paper senior editor Baynard Woods argues in the New York Times. Woods writes that alt weeklies are “connected to a city in the way that a website can never be” and that they “report on…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Ian Bassingthwaighte
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Ian Bassingthwaighte. Here’s an excerpt: I spend all night thinking about bopping Karen ASAP like that would prove she’s right for me. Then immediately before sunup I sneak out of my cabin with the…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: N. Michelle AuBuchon
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from N. Michelle AuBuchon. Here’s an excerpt: The more you take away, the more the world opens up. This is a poetic way of saying that Lakshmi was living vicariously through the amputation and…
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AWP Offsite Event: Rumpus by the Sound
Our offsite AWP event is sure to be one of the after-hours highlights of the conference.
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Christopher Kennedy
The next Weekly Rumpus features flash fiction from Christopher Kennedy. Here’s an excerpt: What are the odds that a fantastic one could ever lose to an ordinary asshole? Good, you think. The fantastic ones are always losing, mistaken for ordinary assholes,…
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The Yellow Dress Video Premiere
We are thrilled to premiere a new video by The Yellow Dress. In 2013, Morning Coffee editor Dan Weiss and his band The Yellow Dress wrote Rumpus co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald a farewell tune, and now Weiss’s band made a Scooby-Doo-inspired…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Caitlin McGuire
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Caitlin McGuire. Here’s an excerpt: For a while after he came back, Annie’s mom wouldn’t let him out of the house. When she finally gave him permission to go outside, he was only…
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A Warm Welcome to Our New Film Editor
We’re excited to announce our new film editor: Chloe Schildhause! A graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Chloe is a writer and editor for Decades Magazine and has written for Flaunt Magazine, The Bold Italic, and Nylon Magazine, among…
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Helen Ellis
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Helen Ellis. Here’s an excerpt: Relocation. That is a big word! It means change. Like when you change from your two-piece into your Little Orphan Annie outfit for talent. You contacted me because…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Jenna Clark Embrey
The next Letter in the Mail is from Jenna Clark Embrey! Earlier this year, we published Jenna’s amazing essay “Coats”. Jenna Clark Embrey is a writer living in Brooklyn. Boston-born, she received an MFA in Theater Dramaturgy from Harvard. Before…