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What to Read When the Story Refuses to End

  • Jen Fawkes
  • October 1, 2021
Jen Fawkes shares a reading list to celebrate TALES THE DEVIL TOLD ME.
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What to Read When You Want to Be Inspired by What Language Can Do

  • Peg Alford Pursell
  • June 28, 2019
Peg Alford Pursell shares a reading list to celebrate her new story collection, A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST.
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What to Read When You Want to Rethink Motherhood

  • The Rumpus
  • May 10, 2019
Rumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to challenge traditional views of motherhood!
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What to Read When You Want to Curl Up with a Good Book

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  • January 12, 2018
Rumpus editors share their favorite winter reads.
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Rewrite, Reboot, Remix

  • J.M. Tyree
  • August 31, 2015
Rewriting the classics has become a stale and risk-averse strategy. But that shouldn’t spoil the fun of our larger culture of remixing.
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All the Shades of Black and White

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 16, 2014
Writing for The New Inquiry, Hannah Black explores race in Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy, Snow, Bird and the relationship of white, black, and mixed racial identities in modern western culture. Similarly,…
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