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Cure for Last Night’s Leftovers

Let’s be clear: There is no hangover cure. Anyone who claims to have never had a hangover is either a) a liar, b) a teetotaler, or c) a responsible drinker. I’m none of those things, most days, despite effort, and the number of times I’ve searched for “how to cure a hangover” in the harsh light of a weekend morning is embarrassing the older I get, so manage your expectations.

A Guidebook for Liminal Times: Martin Shaw’s Smoke Hole

These are liminal times. You must have this book at your side.

Solace in Writing About the End of the World: An Interview with Mike Meginnis

The most beautiful thing I can think of to do with one’s life is to write a novel, even as I feel really ambivalent about the utility of doing it, about the value to myself and to society and to my local community of having written a book.

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Rosa Alcalá

In my meanness I hear the mother of my mother and her mother / before her, the cold cellars and flat pillows of their hearts. The single current / of anger that ran through their voices, each daughter forever through time / believing herself a burden.

Make the Story Work, and the Politics Will Look After Itself: The Rumpus Interview with Tony Birch

It is easy to be awed by Tony Birch’s prolific body of work—his dynamic career ranging from firefighter to professor—his deep love of family and heritage, and his humility. He…

Sons and Daughters

Boys were boys and girls were girls and gender norms were there for a reason. We didn’t realize the reason was to keep women down. Maybe we just didn’t care.

To Become A Kind Person Who Also Writes Books: Body Work by Melissa Febos

The ethics of Body Work are not necessarily that we writers and lovers must achieve perfect consistency between our behaviors (shopping at Sephora) and our politics (beauty standards are harmful), or between our desires (to be rewarded, both intangibly and commercially, for our adherence to dominant culture) and our values (to resist that dominance).

Rumpus Original Fiction: Scale

With my first blood, a scale appears, hard and iridescent in the soft skin below my arm. In bathroom mirror light, elbow raised, I press and prod, fingertips rusted from…

I Write to Make Myself Unrecognized: A Conversation with Shangyang Fang

In Buddhism, there is always an expression on this and that, and the yes and no of this and that. For example, the other side of the river is a metaphor of death, in contrast to this life, this side. I hope that poetry is a way to shatter the border.

What To Read When You’ve Accumulated Too Much

A reading list for spring and spring cleaning!

ENOUGH: Thawing a Dream

A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Issam Zineh

The sky in Clearwater is the print / of your dress—all aster & blue starling. / The year ends the way it began. You asking me / for the indescribable. Sky has no notion of sky.

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