What to Read When You Have to Carry on During Contemporary Collapse
griev[ing] a vanishing world—a nation increasingly divided while the natural world is under siege by wildfire, tornados, and unrelenting storms
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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
for the queers who love Halloween and are also scaredy-cats
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Call for Submissions: November ’23 Themed Month
We’re accepting essays (750-4,000 words) by adoptees from 11/1 through 12/31 via Submittable. Publication will be in November 2023. Rumpus Essays Editor (and Book Club coordinator extraordinaire) Lauren J. Sharkey will be curating this series, and she’s elaborated on the types of stories (and whom) she is hoping to feature below. — Eds. *** When I was three-months-old, […]
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What To Read When Warding Off Art Monsters
or: When great artists turn out to be great douchebags
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What to Read When You Wish You Were Heading Back-to-School
The Rumpus editors put together a list of books for Virgo season
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Sketch Book Reviews: Birds and Us by Tim Birkhead
THE BIRDS AND US, written by Tim Birkhead and released August 2022 from Princeton Review Press, is atheist perfect mix of history, narrative, and science with a dash of cool illustrations. Throughout the book, readers will learn about everything from bird cave paintings, to birdwatching, and everything in between.
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What to Read When In Search of Eastern European Myths
because there’s more than Dostoyevsky and Chekhov . . .
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What to Read When You’d Rather be in Australia
Featuring an “erotic lesbian crime thriller,” because we need that in our lives right now.
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WHAT TO READ WHEN YOU’VE MADE IT HALFWAY THROUGH 2022
Rumpus editors share forthcoming titles they are excited to read
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From the Archive: What to Read When You Want to See a World More F**ked up Than Ours
Reading suggestions from author Celeste Ng for these f**ked-up times: worlds more—or, okay, just differently—f**ked up than ours.
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What to Read When You Want to Look
Books that are a feast for the eyes
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What to Read When It’s Mental Health Awareness Month
The editors put together a list of books for Mental Health Awareness Month.
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What to Read When You Want to Bridge the Distance (or your friends feel far away)
. . . the sustaining rhythms of call and response, the power of mutual attention and direct address, of slowing down enough to listen, of connection as a means of searching, solace, and subversion.
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From the Archive: FUNNY WOMEN #139: Gap Year To-Do List
Water is a precious resource; my portable soda stream honors that fact.
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Call for Submissions: September ’22 Themed Month
Education is perhaps the most vulnerable and intimate experience people can have with each other that is not familial or romantic. It’s so easy for the classroom to be either harmful—consider the destruction of a person’s curiosity and confidence in learning is muddled by shame or helplessness— or transformative when done well—empowering a student to […]
...moreAnnouncing the June Book Club Picks
Though the temperatures may suggest otherwise, it’s time to start thinking about summertime reads. Our June book club picks are Night of the Living Rez, a debut collection of stories by Morgan Talty, and Refuse to Disappear, by Tara Betts.
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What to Read When It’s the End of the World
. . . a list of books that I feel are worth reaching for in times like ours—some because they are apocalyptic and heavy in subject or tone, others because they are satirical, and others because of how they show parts of the world that make it worth staying in or show a world so foreign to ours that it helps medicate against some of the tunnel vision of our times
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why deer and poetry mix so well: A conversation with Caitlin Scarano
Originally from Southside Virginia, Caitlin Scarano (she/they) is a writer based in Bellingham, Washington. She holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and an MFA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. They were selected as a participant in the NSF’s Antarctic Artists & Writers Program and spent November 2018 in McMurdo Station in Antarctica. […]
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What to Read When You Want to Bend Time
The works . . . interrogate time in text through myriad forms, playing with and revealing its machinations all through inventive means. Like the waves and fragments of memory, many of them swerve outside the lines of stiff categorization.
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What to Read When You Want to Be a Patch of Moss
There is pleasure in being seen and there is pleasure in disappearing. Wade in to the swamp, pull out a book, wipe off the slime and sit on the edge to become invisible.
...moreAnnouncing May Book Club Picks
We’re delighted to share with you our May Book Club selections.
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Call for Submissions: We Are More
Now reading submissions for our WE ARE MORE column.
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What To Read When You’ve Accumulated Too Much
A reading list for spring and spring cleaning!
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Call for Submissions: Themed Month
This May, during Mental Health Awareness Month, The Rumpus will be exploring this subject through the lens of the things that keep us going.
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What to Read When You Want to Be a Bad Girl
Ariel Delgado Dixon, author of DON’T SAY WE DIDN’T WARN YOU, shares a reading list for when you want to be a Bad Girl.
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What to Read When Celebrating Black History
Rumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month!
...moreHello, Goodbye (CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: COMICS)
The Comics section of our Submittable portal is waiting for you! Formatting guidelines etc. are all available there.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE: FUNNY WOMEN: Feminist Valentine’s Day Gifts
Stretch. Listen in hundreds of different positions. Listen a little to the left; now a little to the right.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: FICTION
Here at The Rumpus we are again open for original fiction submissions through the end of February.
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What to Read When Imagining the Natural World
In one of Jane Goodall’s early books, there’s a photo of two chimpanzees sitting on a height watching the sun set. Are they enjoying the colors the way we do? Scientists warn us not to anthropomorphize because it’s a kind of arrogance to assume we know what another species thinks and feels. Fortunately, we can […]
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