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What to Read When

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Themed reading recommendation lists from The Rumpus’s editorial staff and guest authors.

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What to Read When You Need to See Someone Else’s Light and Darkness

  • Carla Rachel Sameth
  • May 1, 2020
Carla Rachel Sameth shares a reading list to celebrate ONE DAY ON THE GOLD LINE.
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What to Read When You Want to Tread through Love’s Complications

  • Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
  • April 24, 2020
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood shares a reading list to celebrate A SMALL THING TO WANT.
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What to Read When You Can’t Write

  • Courtney Maum
  • April 17, 2020
Courtney Maum shares a reading list to celebrate BEFORE AND AFTER THE BOOK DEAL.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Poetry

  • The Rumpus
  • April 10, 2020
Rumpus editors share share new and forthcoming collections we’re especially excited about!
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What to Read When You’re Motherless and Mothering

  • Chelsea Bieker
  • April 3, 2020
Chelsea Bieker shares a reading list to celebrate GODSHOT.
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What to Read When You Don’t Know What to Wear

  • Megan Volpert
  • March 27, 2020
Megan Volpert shares a reading list to celebrate CLOSET CASES.
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What to Read When You’re Transforming

  • Laura Bogart
  • March 20, 2020
Laura Bogart shares a reading list to celebrate DON’T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History

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  • March 13, 2020
Rumpus editors share their favorite writing that speaks to women's history past, present, and future.
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What to Read When You Feel Too Much

  • Rachel Vorona Cote
  • March 6, 2020
Rachel Vorona Cote shares a reading list to celebrate TOO MUCH.
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What to Read When You Are Searching for Community

  • A MAP IS ONLY ONE STORY contributors
  • February 21, 2020
Contributors to A MAP IS ONLY ONE STORY share reading recommendations.
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What to Read When You Want to Fall in Love with Novels in Verse

  • Gayle Brandeis
  • February 14, 2020
Gayle Brandeis shares a reading list to celebrate MANY RESTLESS CONCERNS.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History

  • The Rumpus
  • February 7, 2020
Rumpus editors share for their favorite writing that speaks to Black history past, present, and future.
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