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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 Want to Bend Time

  • Kristin Keane
  • April 8, 2022
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

  • Kate Schneider
  • March 25, 2022
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.
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What To Read When You’ve Accumulated Too Much

  • Vanessa Chakour
  • March 11, 2022
A reading list for spring and spring cleaning!
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What to Read When You Want to Be a Bad Girl

  • Ariel Delgado Dixon
  • February 25, 2022
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

  • The Rumpus
  • February 11, 2022
Rumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month!
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What to Read When Imagining the Natural World

  • Sherry Rind
  • January 14, 2022
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?…
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What to Read When Remembering bell hooks, Eve Babitz, and Joan Didion

  • Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
  • December 31, 2021
Three short book lists of three great writers.
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What to Read When 2022 Is Just Around the Corner

  • The Rumpus
  • December 10, 2021
Books releasing in the first half of 2022 that we can’t wait to read!
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide

  • The Rumpus
  • November 19, 2021
Rumpus recommendations for books to gift to friends and family this holiday season!
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What to Read When You Want to Quit Your Job

  • Wendy J. Fox
  • November 12, 2021
Wendy J. Fox shares a reading list to celebrate WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate the Harlem Renaissance

  • Kimberly Garrett Brown
  • November 5, 2021
Kimberly Garrett Brown shares a reading list to celebrate CORA’S KITCHEN.
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What to Read When You Want to Be Haunted

  • Allison Ellis
  • October 29, 2021
Allison Ellis shares a reading list for when you want to be haunted!
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