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We Are More: Wanting to Want: Romance and Sports Anime

  • Summer Farah
  • June 13, 2023
I think I understand the gap between obsession and devotion, then.
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From the Archives: What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Pride

  • The Rumpus
  • June 13, 2023
Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate Pride Month!
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Pink and Lilac

  • Molly Dektar
  • June 12, 2023
My sister chose petal pink and lilac for her wedding. She was a coder. She was going to be the breadwinner.
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A time to speak directly: A Conversation with Jesse Lee Kercheval

  • Diane Gottlieb
  • June 12, 2023
. . . when I’m putting together a collection of poems, I want an emotional arc.
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What to Read When You Are Tired*

  • The Rumpus
  • June 9, 2023
* of asking for basic services like healthcare and the right to exist
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Christine Kwon

  • Christine Kwon
  • June 8, 2023
I’m a poet, I say, finally, / throwing up my hands, / but she just sits there with this look.
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S/Talking Jared: A conversation with Jared Pappas-Kelley

  • Jonathan Mayhew
  • June 7, 2023
We swim in feedback, baby sharks, and it’s about how do we live in that and make sense or are perhaps shaped by it.
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Animal as Metaphor: Erica Berry’s Wolfish

  • Melissa Rodman
  • June 6, 2023
Living entities, with whom we cannot communicate fully, seduce us in their majesty.
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Donut Dollies and Maven Matriarchs: A Conversation with Luis Alberto Urrea

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • June 5, 2023
If you’ve got that outline already lived, then you have to try to honor it.
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The Rumpus needs a REDESIGN

  • The Rumpus
  • June 1, 2023
Today, we're launching this $10K crowdfunding campaign to redesign the magazine’s website. We've been running on the same WordPress template since the site launched 14 years ago, which makes it like 1,400 in internet-years.
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Toward a Glimmering Unknowable Self: A Conversation with Emerson Whitney

  • Cameron Finch
  • May 31, 2023
The great thing about writing autobiographically, in these kinds of ways, is that I get to write the whole swarm of thoughts and connect them as I want to.
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Recollections of a Non-Existence: Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X

  • Vartika Rastogi
  • May 30, 2023
“There was no con. There was no crime. There was only fiction.”
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