The Rumpus 2023 Gift Guide
Okay, a quick confession—I’m terrible at gifting. I occasionally land on the mark, but most of the time my ideas are either wild guesses or something thrown together in a panic, and I often fall back on the classics . . .
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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
What to Read When You Want to Understand Precarity
American Precariat shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken and articulates the lines of our division.
December Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Our December Letters in the Mail come from Molly Crabapple and Taylor Byas.
The Rumpus Member Drive
Expanding The Rumpus’s membership program to at least 600 members is necessary for us to cover our basic operating costs and continue our mission of publishing risk-taking voices and emerging writers.
What to Read If You Want to Understand Adoptees
I was an adopted only child who taught myself to read at the age of three. Books were my world, my companions and my solace. I gravitated towards stories of…
What to Read When You’re Healing
In our cultural climate of reflecting and experiencing so much societal, governmental, and personal harm; it’s no wonder many have returned and revived poetry as a balm for the current moment.
November Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Our November Letters in the Mail come from Daniel Gumbiner and Jami Nakamura Lin.
What to Read When You Want to Find Home
Even if I’m still in limbo, I’m learning what home means for me and how it shows up in both my body and my mind.
October Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Our next Letters in the Mail come from Ling Ma and Kelly Sather.
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Dollmaker
Sakshi can lay me over her workbench, unstitch my skin, stuff me with fur, and then sew me. She can weave her magic into me. Make me not be myself anymore.
They’re Both and They’re Neither: A Conversation with Robert Lunday
My stepfather would always tell me, “Don’t think, act. Follow orders.” For me, I want to stop to consider the different angles.