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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Typhoon is a Hurricane

  • M. Evelina Galang
  • February 15, 2018
She tried her best to be clinical, but his dreaming scared her, made her think of ghosts and aswang stealing pieces of her—little bit by little bit.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: One of Them Dies

  • Carl Napolitano
  • January 31, 2018
We seldom forget when people promise to give us something, whether we need or want that thing or not. I promise you death, you want a death.
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Writing into the Void: Talking with Mary Jo Salter

  • Liz von Klemperer
  • January 3, 2018
Mary Jo Salter discusses her latest collection, The Surveyors, writing about the domestic as a feminist act, and how her title poem came from someone else’s dream.
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An Open Letter to George Bailey

  • Amy Shearn
  • December 20, 2017
"That’s right: George Bailey needs to chill. Don’t @ me."
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Love Thy Neighbor: Talking with Yewande Omotoso

  • Khanya Mtshali
  • August 30, 2017
Writer, poet, and architect Yewande Omotoso discusses her second novel, The Woman Next Door, Cape Town’s haunting beauty, and mythologies about motherhood.
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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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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #25: Are You Now, or Have You Ever Been, a Success?

  • Charles Kruger
  • April 14, 2017
In America, everybody, it seems, wants to be a success. Me, too. Recently, I confided to a family member that sometimes, in moments of deep despair (fortunately they are fairly…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Hammock

  • Samara Skolnik
  • March 19, 2017
Birth, death. We live in the middle. “What’s it like?” Lee asks. “Is it a door, and goodbye on either side?” Just like the stars, one day we all collapse, our mass and light and energy exploding into nothingness.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: An Audience with the Husband

  • Kirsten Rue
  • March 18, 2017
To ask for a truly great love is to ask for death at the same time.
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Leonard Cohen - You Want it Darker | Rumpus Music
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Sound Takes: You Want it Darker

  • Amish Trivedi
  • March 9, 2017
There are hard lessons about aging and dying and living on You Want It Darker that we’re not going to ever be done with until we either cure death or forget Leonard Cohen.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #67: Anuradha Roy

  • Tochi Onyebuchi
  • January 19, 2017
A tranquil beach town named Jarmuli is the setting of Anuradha Roy’s third novel, Sleeping on Jupiter, which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and made the longlist…
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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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