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  • Brandon Hicks
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Inherited Jeans

  • Brandon Hicks
  • January 28, 2018
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Beautiful Liar

  • Denise Shekerjian
  • June 27, 2017
I tell myself that all I need is practice and maybe much better shorts. I wonder: when did I become such a beautiful liar? Walk, walk, walk, and fly.
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  • Brandon Hicks
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My Weekend with the Harakakukua

  • Brandon Hicks
  • June 25, 2017
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Pinpricks

  • Leila Aboulela
  • January 7, 2017
Time is king. Believers, agnostics or atheists—humans or not: time rules us. We submit to it, surrender to it, and are shaped by it.
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Translating the Elderly: Amour, The Intern, and Our Many Selves

  • Alana Hauser
  • June 9, 2016
The elderly become reminders not of our imminent mortality, but of our ever-evolving humanity, our enduring lust—and need—for connection and purpose.
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The Rumpus Interview with George Hodgman

  • Danielle Trussoni
  • May 13, 2015
Editor and author George Hodgman talks about his new memoir, Bettyville, what makes for a good memoir, and returning to his hometown of Paris, Missouri from New York to take care of his aging mother.
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Are Writers Better with Age?

  • Ian MacAllen
  • January 14, 2015
Not everyone is going to make a “5 under 35” list. Actually, most writers won’t. Though the zeitgeist seems obsessed with youthful writers, older is often better, as this infographic…
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All the Longing Left in the Body

  • Kate Gray
  • July 15, 2013
“Sorry,” she said as she passed me in the entrance to the women’s room. “That’s my husband in the other stall. Don’t mind him.” She was going back to her car.
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