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Rumpus Exclusive: “Passing as Privileged”
I don’t feel ashamed of my history, I feel ashamed of letting it be erased.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Lucy Hughes-Hallet’s Peculiar Ground
Off what did Humpty Dumpty fall?
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Rumpus Exclusive: Three Excerpts from AFTERWORDS
Three exclusive excerpts from …AFTERWORDS, a new series of distinctive commentaries on great works of contemporary literature from our friends at Fiction Advocate!
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Gayle Brandeis’s The Art of Misdiagnosis
After my mom hangs herself, I become Nancy Drew. I am looking for clues, for evidence. Answers.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Matthew Gallaway’s #gods
Matthew Gallaway’s new novel, #gods, is out this month from Fiction Advocate.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Jessie Chaffee’s Florence in Ecstasy
He is a bird, he and that silver scull, a bird. Would I ever have that grace?
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Paul Madonna Moves on to the Next Dream
We are excited to offer a preview of artwork from Paul Madonna’s new book, On to the Next Dream, alongside an interview with our current Comics Editor, Brandon Hicks, and an exclusive excerpt.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Danielle Trussoni’s The Fortress
Danielle Trussoni’s new novel, The Fortress: A Love Story, is out today from Dey Street, an imprint of William Morrow Publishers.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Rob Roberge’s Liar
Rob Roberge’s new memoir, Liar, is out February 9 from Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Joe Meno’s Marvel and a Wonder
A Rumpus exclusive excerpt from Joe Meno’s latest novel, Marvel and a Wonder, out September 1st from Akashic Books.
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Five Easy Pieces
“Five Easy Pieces” is a Rumpus exclusive excerpt from the forthcoming 52 Men, with autobiographical portraits based on based on Lou Reed, Michael Stipe, Jonathan Franzen, Jay Carney, and Carter Vanderbilt Cooper.
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Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through
How do we begin to describe the indescribable? In McSweeney’s newest book That Thing You Do With Your Mouth, actor Samantha Matthews and author David Shields challenge the way we think about trauma by changing the way we talk about…