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Living in A Slow Moving Catastrophe, Following the What Ifs: A Conversation with Mary Helen Specht
“I found myself writing a scene with an indie rock musician playing a set at Burning Man, and her daughter goes missing. But, I didn’t really know if this was a novel or a story or what was going to…
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Two Pink Lines
Jade and Lucas were fraternal twins. That their hypothetical respective children be born in tight proximity was important, imperative, lightly exacted. Our babies will be just like twins. They’ll be the best cousins. The best friends. Jade’s tender want. Friendly…
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Hendiduras y fronteras en la ficción: una conversación con Valeria Luiselli
Es un libro en donde, seguramente, los lectores encontrarán temas relativos a nuestro presente. Luiselli hace un viaje temporal y espacial dentro de la narrativa para desenterrar y examinar preguntas eternas y cosmogónicas de nuestra civilización; y, justo cuando estamos…
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Sorry For My Loss
Her dad wasn’t even some eccentric billionaire with an army of lawyers—half the money she would’ve inherited was frittered away on obscure cryptocurrencies and perplexing amounts of wild-caught salmon. But it is still a sizable sum of money, so here…
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Braiding a Story of Self into the Inherited Trauma of War: A Conversation with Jason Prokowiew
“I was getting encouragement to bring myself into the story. That’s when I found the year-long Memoir Incubator at Grub Street. I got into the Incubator on a Tuesday. The day after that, I searched for a therapist. I knew…
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In Praise of Rewatching
My baseball-loving dad may be long gone, but my Blu-ray of Field of Dreams remains at the ready. And if I play it, he will come.
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Reflections on “What Is Freedom?”
As our “What is freedom?” initiative comes to a close, we at The Rumpus wanted to look back at the thought-provoking range of responses we received. When we sent our prompt to this group of talented writers, thinkers, and artists…
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some roads I don’t care to travel anymore
Fridays, I drove Route 119 at sunset toward your old home, turning off at the potholed road to clatter through meadows dotted with cows and cornflowers,
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I Don’t Want to Hurt These Characters: A Conversation with Paige Lewis
“It’s been really strange to live in the world of the book for so many years and now be outside of it. It feels a little bit unfair. I want to be back in the throes of the book. I…
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The August Rumpus Book Club Selection: “Audition” by Katie Kitamura
Our third installment of the relaunch The Rumpus Book Club* will be on August 25 at 2pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with Katie Kitamura about her multi-award winning novel Audition. Audition was a finalist for the Pulitzer…
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Physics, Fractals and A Zumba Playlist
I’d grown up internalizing the big-city maxim that strangers didn’t interact for no reason, unless mental illness was involved. You kept your eyes down and your pace brisk; life was a serious business. But that day, I glimpsed an alternate…
