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  • Letters Blog

Next Letter in the Mail: Brandon Hicks

  • The Rumpus
  • December 21, 2015
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Brandon Hicks! Brandon sends us a very creative, funny, non-traditional letter. He really wants to get to…
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  • (K)ink: Writing While Deviant
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Dale Corvino

  • Dale Corvino
  • December 21, 2015
There’s a connection between the longings of the characters I develop in my fiction and my urge to dominate.
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  • Letters Blog

Next Letter for Kids: Pete Hautman

  • The Rumpus
  • December 21, 2015
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from National Book Award-winner Pete Hautman! Pete writes an awesomely illustrated and very funny letter about one of his favorite activites—hunting wild mushrooms in the…
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  • Book Club Blog

A Rumpus Book Club Subscription Makes a Great Gift

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 20, 2015
We’re at that point in the holiday shopping season where if you don’t already have a gift for someone, you either have to deal with the other last-minute shoppers in stores,…
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  • Rumpus Original

Rumpus Original Fiction: People and Oranges and People

  • Hugh Smith
  • December 18, 2015
Something must remain of me, of course. Someone has to lock the door behind us when we go out.
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Understander by D. W. Lea

  • Damon Marbut
  • December 18, 2015
Damon Marbut reviews D. W. Lea's Understander today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Rick Moody

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 16, 2015
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Rick Moody about his new book Hotels of North America, unreliable narrators, hotel porn, how titles are uncopyrightable, and Internet comment sections.
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  • Rumpus Original

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Shane McCrae

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 15, 2015
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Shane McCrae about his new book The Animal Too Big to Kill, listening to music while writing, addressing God in poetry, and The Oak Ridge Boys.
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  • Tessa Fontaine

Dispatch from the Carnival #5: Instructions for Losing Your Head

  • Tessa Fontaine
  • December 14, 2015
Know that you will be whole only when you run behind the curtain to slide yourself between the wooden planks of the next box, only when nobody is looking at you.
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The Glory Gets by Honorée Jeffers

  • Barbara Berman
  • December 11, 2015
Barbara Berman reviews Honorée Jeffers's The Glory Gets today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Creature Feature by Ruth Foley

  • Jennifer MacBain-Stephens
  • December 9, 2015
Jennifer MacBain-Stephens reviews Ruth Foley's Creature Feature today in Rumpus Poetry.
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  • Rumpus Original

David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: From the Earth to the Stars Part One

  • David Biespiel
  • December 8, 2015
When you're a diver, you're only a tourist of the air.
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