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War Narratives #2: Trauma Writing

[I]f we don’t explore wartime trauma in literature, we will never understand war’s impact in personal or social terms; never understand the incredible variety of responses to trauma, with all its nuances and exceptions.

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Armored in Cars and Driving Unseen

America is a beautiful country and it was beautiful before we got here. I’m not sure yet if we, the ancestral echo of colonizers, are a beautiful people. I often have doubts.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jay Rubin

Author and translator Jay Rubin talks about his new novel, The Sun Gods, translating Haruki Murakami into English, and the internment of Japanese citizens during World War II.

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FUNNY WOMEN #130: Practice Test for Tweens

...educators have finally rolled out a new curriculum that they believe will be more exciting and relevant to various groups of young learners. Like this practice test for tweens!!

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How Strangers Form Constellations That Make Sense of the World

“How much does it cost to write a poem?” A red-headed teen asks, she is with a friend who has similarly long and shiny hair. “Nothing.” I spread my arms wide.

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Working Draft of Another Life

We open in a wide framing shot of autumn-tinged trees lining a schoolyard. A procession of first-graders walk-run-skip down the sidewalk circling the school.

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The Rumpus Interview with Frederic Rzewski

Composer Frederic Rzewski talks about his masterpiece The People United Will Never Be Defeated, writing and playing classical music, and performing his music in an unusual venue—a fish market.

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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Patrick O’Neil

Patrick O'Neil talks about his debut memoir Gun Needle Spoon, being big in France, the drug/recovery genre, and writing through trauma.

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Rumpus Video Premiere: The Size Queens’s To The Country

An exclusive video premiere of The Size Queens's To the Country, a two-song sampler featuring the titular track, "To The Country," along with "Hands and Knees."

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