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March Spotlight: Letters in the Mail

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  • February 9, 2023
embracing ambivalence, returning to one's hometown and the musings it inspires during a time of collective dread, a canine writing team, and the power of imagination
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What to Read When: You Like to Look at Birds

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  • January 27, 2023
I have long gravitated toward books that know where they are situated.
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February Spotlight: Letters in the Mail

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  • January 19, 2023
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What to Read When: The Most Beautiful Books of 2022

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  • December 30, 2022
Judging books by their covers.
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What to Read When 2023 is Around the Corner

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  • December 23, 2022
Another year, another TBR pile.
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A Rumpus Prose Gift Guide

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  • December 16, 2022
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January Spotlight: Letters in the Mail

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  • December 15, 2022
For decades my writing was just for me. Then in the nineties, I discovered communities of queer South Asian artists and activists, radical BIPOC writers. . . . This is when I realized being a writer could be a lifestyle rather than my secret passion.
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What to Read When You Want to Slip Away

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  • December 9, 2022
A list from YZ Chin of works in translation
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A Rumpus Poetry Gift Guide

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  • December 8, 2022
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  • November 17, 2022
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December Spotlight: Letters in the Mail

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  • November 17, 2022
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What to Read When You Have to Carry on During Contemporary Collapse

  • Sarah Fawn Montgomery
  • November 11, 2022
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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