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Nothing and Everything: An Interview with Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills on the Fragmentation of Adoption

  • Liz Prato
  • November 7, 2022
Family relies on the antics of nationalism: who belongs, who doesn’t, to whom are we loyal, to whom are we not . . . I suppose “family” is another F-word that can be something that brings pleasure, or that might be deployed as a weapon if in the mouth of the wrong person.
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Funny Women: Things I Wish I Could Workshop Other Than My Novel

  • Rachel Mann
  • November 4, 2022
Do I come across as a middle child with first-child energy? Would you recommend treatment for my character, and if so, from a sliding-scale social worker or a psychiatrist? Meditation or medication? Out-patient or in?
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RUMPUS POETRY BOOK CLUB EXCERPT by Courtney Faye Taylor

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • November 2, 2022
An excerpt from The Rumpus Poetry Book Club's December selection, CONCENTRATE by Courtney Faye Taylor from Graywolf Press
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Stories help us be able to be brave: Adoption and Belonging with Mariama J. Lockington

  • Annelies Zijderveld
  • November 2, 2022
It is okay to feel more than one thing.
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Thalassophobia: The Black Boy and the Sea

  • Akhim Alexis
  • November 1, 2022
I am now twenty-seven, and I still do not know how to swim.
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History Is Fluid: R.F. Kuang’s Babel

  • Hilary Sun
  • November 1, 2022
In Babel, language is a resource stolen from the mouths of native speakers.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Rapunzel House

  • K.C. Mead-Brewer
  • October 31, 2022
“Don’t worry,” he says. “Give it time. It’ll grow on you.”
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The Rumpus Talks with Michael Pedersen About the Beauty of Male Friendship

  • Shannon Perri
  • October 31, 2022
An acclaimed Scottish writer and performer, Michael Pedersen is the author of two poetry collections, Play with Me and Oyster, and most recently a memoir titled Boy Friends, which celebrates…
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WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU DON’T LIKE SCARY MOVIES BUT YOUR FRIENDS’ “31 DAYS OF HORROR” POSTS ARE GIVING YOU FOMO

  • Joe Vallese
  • October 28, 2022
for the queers who love Halloween and are also scaredy-cats
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Voices On Addiction: The Hypnotist

  • Gretchen VanWormer
  • October 28, 2022
Dad quit smoking via a hypnotist shortly before my sister Margaret was born. When I was eight or nine, he liked telling me the story of the hypnosis, sitting together on the green sofa in the living room, parallelograms of sunlight on the brown carpet.
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RUMPUS BOOK CLUB EXCERPT: “WE SWARM” BY Sabrina Imbler

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  • October 27, 2022
An excerpt from The Rumpus Book Club's December selection, HOW FAR THE LIGHT REACHES by Sabrina Imbler // Subscribe by November 15
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Tasting Our Own Wildness: Talking with Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

  • Greg Mania
  • October 26, 2022
. . . perhaps humanity is not the pinnacle of what a living thing can be . . .
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