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Pig on a Stick

  • Kristen Gaerlan
  • July 3, 2019
My Filipino father refused to be upstaged by a white man’s lechon.
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TORCH: The American Girl at the Temple

  • Shaila Kapoor
  • February 20, 2018
[T]o be a tourist in a foreign country is very different than being a tourist in a foreign country where you are expected to feel you have returned home.
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A Meer-Kin in Paris

  • Scott Dominic Carpenter
  • February 21, 2017
Her face lit up, and I checked to make sure the man’s scowl had returned. It wasn’t enough for me that heaven should exist for the wife; her husband had to end up in hell.
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Natural Born Drivers

  • A. Sandosharaj
  • November 4, 2016
He only knew that the Blazer, like the green card, was something he wanted my brother and me to have, so that we knew we deserved things, things like America.
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A Japanese Heart

  • Sho Araiba
  • April 29, 2016
If you follow the script, people will judge you as having a genuine Japanese heart.
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The Rumpus Interview with Miroslav Penkov

  • Christine Pivovar
  • April 15, 2016
Miroslav Penkov discusses his debut novel, Stork Mountain, Balkan history, and the difficulties and rewards of being a bilingual writer.
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Carol

  • Sean Donovan
  • December 26, 2015
Carol is a powerful woman with enviable self-knowledge, effortlessly creating an erotic, sensual ideal of herself as a covert spectacle for queer midcentury women.
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Of Novelists and Politics

  • Mary Allen
  • October 8, 2015
In 2015, to be an influential fiction writer means only to wield influence within a niche audience of people who are already of the same mind… American political discussion is…
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The British 20 Under 40

  • Ari Messer
  • June 22, 2010
Great Britain is making its own lists. And Great Britain is still publishing novels. If you believe the rumors, the raging historical narratives are printed by hand, folded into folios,…
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