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Both Outsider and Participant: Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi

In Thousand Star Hotel, the bilingual writer’s struggle with expressing himself in English becomes a metaphor for the immigrant’s struggle with navigating the host nation’s hostile-yet-lucrative social terrain.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview #107: Sissy Spacek

Sissy Spacek still radiates youth and innocence when she enters a room.

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Sound & Vision: Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw

Allyson McCabe talks with Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw, two of the founders of the performance group Split Britches, about their lives and work.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: My Name Is Jean-Pierre and I Am Still an End Table

I am glad to be free of that tyrant, even if it means I am an end table waddling inch-by-inch down this path on a foolish mission that might prove impossible. I may be an end table, but at least I am free.

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An Answer Should Lead to Another Question: Talking with Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout discusses Conflation, a vinyl recording from Fonograf Editions that “interrogates the difference between texture and tactile; thing unspoken versus thing unseen.”

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Support the 7-inches for Planned Parenthood Project Today

Don't miss this new series of 7-inch records and digital downloads to benefit Planned Parenthood!

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Letters Blog

Next Letter in the Mail: Alex Mar

Our next Letter in the Mail comes from Alex Mar!

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Playing with Genre: Beth Ann Fennelly’s Heating & Cooling

Whether you read it as poetry or memoir, this collection will invite you into the delicate balance between the challenging, sometimes squalid, human condition and the beauty and sadness of the transcendent.

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The Rumpus Mini Interview #106: Louise Marburg

The stories [in THE TRUTH ABOUT ME], like Marburg herself, are insightful, witty, to the point, and told with her wonderfully dry sense of humor.

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TORCH: Over the Borderline

I'm writing about the border through the eyes of children because the border is a problem of the imagination.

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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Rachel McKibbens

I cut off my nose, / her nose collapses. / Chop down my hair & / hers shrieks from the sink. / How many poems do I / have to write ‘til she / gets dead, how many / live-wire syllables?

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Letters Blog

Next Letter for Kids: Susan Hughes

We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Susan Hughes!

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