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Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Quentin James

  • Quentin James
  • October 17, 2016
What the hell do I have to lose in this country? Honestly, I don’t know where to begin.
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Multitudes: What Is a Haunting?

  • Celeste Chan
  • October 17, 2016
What cannot be forgotten/cannot be remembered?
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The Rumpus Interview with Brit Bennett

  • Abigail Bereola
  • October 17, 2016
Brit Bennett discusses her debut novel The Mothers, investigating “what-if” moments, and navigating racism in white spaces.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: (On My Throat)

  • Wes Jamison
  • October 16, 2016
...the connection between the throat and heart and that which they represent: voice and love.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Tommy Pico

  • Michaelsun Stonesweat Knapp
  • October 15, 2016
The more of us there are out here sharing our work and telling our own stories and flying our freak flags, being our intricate, strange, and idiosyncratic selves, the less power the monolith has.
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Broken Bones and Old Songs: A Novelist’s Fight to Keep Memory Alive

  • Warren Adler
  • October 14, 2016
Memory is the machine of creativity—its heart and soul.
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The Rumpus Interview with Brian Booker

  • Ben Hoffman
  • October 14, 2016
Brian Booker discusses his debut collection Are You Here For What I’m Here For?, giving characters strange and unusual names, and sleeping sickness.
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The Rumpus Review of Bridget Jones’s Baby

  • Virginia Pasley
  • October 13, 2016
Perhaps Bridget fans who watched the movies but never read the books might not find this movie to be such a hard blow... But those who read the books—and those who loved the pilgrim soul in Bridget—will feel the loss more keenly.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Lucy Dacus’s Journals

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • October 13, 2016
What I write in my journals is a personal record of the events in my life, and my reactions to them.
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A Man’s ABCs of Miscarriage

  • Elison Alcovendaz
  • October 12, 2016
I once heard the only thing faster than the speed of light is the speed of thought, and I wonder if simply thinking about Sawyer’s sister until my head hurts could get us to the place we fear talking about.
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The Rumpus Interview with Max Porter

  • Jon Kaleugher
  • October 12, 2016
Max Porter discusses his debut novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, literary genres, and the changing roles of editors.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems that Shaped America (Pt. 3): “Prospective Immigrants Please Note”

  • David Biespiel
  • October 11, 2016
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