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Farewell, Professor Wiesel

  • Bill Gillis
  • November 14, 2016
Faith is about action, Professor Wiesel said that day. Faith is about what you do with that faith. Belief in God is to do, not to accept. So always the question: what can we do?
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The Rumpus Interview with Carolyn Parkhurst

  • Alejandra Oliva
  • November 14, 2016
Carolyn Parkhurst discusses her latest book, Harmony, writing about your personal life and family in fiction, and her fascination with cults.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tinfoil Astronaut

  • L.M. Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas
  • November 13, 2016
Every time I leap there is a chance I will fall, and every time I fall there is a chance I will finally crack my head open like a Faberge egg and luminous black spiders will crawl out to mark the outline of my body with blinking stars and black thread.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Woman at Standing Rock

  • Millissa Kingbird
  • November 12, 2016
I think back and then here, where I can only think of beasts with stains: oil and blood. They have become as familiar as an oil-stained cloth in a garage, or the things we ignore, just there in the light.
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Voices on Addiction: 365 Days without You

  • Rowena Alegría
  • November 11, 2016
The men in my family don’t live long, you foretold. Damn you. Drunks and rock stars don’t grow up.
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The Rumpus Interview with Belle Boggs

  • Yvonne Conza
  • November 11, 2016
Belle Boggs discusses The Art of Waiting about navigating through the difficulties of conception and fertility treatment.
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Mr. Clarke, the Real Hero of Stranger Things

  • Stephanie Garrison
  • November 10, 2016
He’s the teacher who encourages questions beyond the class assessment, who always gets his students to open the “Curiosity Door.”
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Kurt Wagner’s One-of-a-Kind Hat

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • November 10, 2016
I try not to think about fashion. It’s more that I want to settle on something to wear so I don’t have to think about it.
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The Night Faerie

  • Christopher Locke
  • November 9, 2016
We were all free-falling, and there was no one, nothing, to catch us.
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The Rumpus Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz

  • Charlotte O'Brien
  • November 9, 2016
Wendy C. Ortiz discusses her new book Bruja, what a "dreamoire" is, the magic all around us, and why she loves indices—and cats.
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A Note from the Editor

  • Marisa Siegel
  • November 8, 2016
We live in a country that is deeply troubled, that is sick. We will not look away.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 5): “The Lost Pilot”

  • David Biespiel
  • November 8, 2016
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