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Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Rumpus Original Fiction: A World in a Box

  • Justin Burnell
  • April 24, 2019
Saturday is a desert in a motel.
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Titanic Turns Twenty in a World That Won’t Talk About It

  • Claire Shefchik
  • December 19, 2017
After twenty years and eleven Oscars and eleventy billion dollars, we still don’t really talk about Titanic.
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Just Chaste Me

  • Diane Shipley
  • June 1, 2017
The more first-time stories I heard, the longer I was willing to wait.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Chen Chen

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • May 16, 2017
Chen Chen discusses his new collection When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, playing the game white supremacy has set up, and if God is trying and failing to be a cool dad.
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Claudia Cortese Discusses Wasp Queen

  • Melissa Adamo
  • April 21, 2017
Poet Claudia Cortese talks about her new book Wasp Queen and Lucy, the rebellious 90s teen whose voice inspired the collection.
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This Week in Trumplandia

  • Buffy Flores
  • March 9, 2017
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a…
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Damned and Damaged Vessels

  • Rivers Solomon
  • November 30, 2016
I envisioned a new science fiction canon, one in which I was a cyborg, fashioning my body into something new.
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Punk Magic

  • Kyle Williams
  • August 22, 2016
Over at Hazlitt, Tobias Carroll writes about the intersection of punk and magic in various fictional works, from The Insides by Jeremy P. Bushnell to the Hellblazer comics and Buffy the…
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Saša Stanišić

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • July 27, 2016
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Saša Stanišić about his novel Before the Feast, the challenge of writing a plural narrator, working with a translator, and book tours in Germany.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Instructions for Replicating a Bad Summer

  • Megan Burbank
  • May 28, 2016
Compare yourself to a raw wound. Explain that everyone else is one too, whether they know it or not.
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The Rumpus Interview with Manuel Gonzales

  • Graham Oliver
  • April 8, 2016
Manuel Gonzales talks about his new novel, The Regional Office is Under Attack!, transitioning from nonprofit work to teaching, and how to zig when a trope wants you to zag.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Hot Thing

  • Rebecca Kuder
  • February 21, 2016
I wake in the dark in bed and there’s a furnace, a turncoat thermostat inside my body; there is no limit, there is no overdoodling, no crescendo. No hot enough, only hotter.
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