Carnival
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #182: Valerie Nieman
“We’re all freaks, all wanderers, all seekers.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman
Sometimes a story suddenly changes.
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Reading New Orleans
In the spirit of Mardi Gras, Veronica Brooks-Sigler has compiled a list of books inspired by the complex city of New Orleans over at Lit Hub.
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Dispatch from the Carnival #5: Instructions for Losing Your Head
Know that you will be whole only when you run behind the curtain to slide yourself between the wooden planks of the next box, only when nobody is looking at you.
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Dispatch from the Carnival #4: Taking in the Sword
What is this body if you take its power over you away? In the torture arts, you are both the creator and recipient of your pain.
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Carnival by Rawi Hage
Beirut-born Montreal author Rawi Hage has created a richly mysterious and surreally grotesque dream for his third novel, Carnival. The novel’s protagonist and narrator, nicknamed Fly, is a taxi driver in an unnamed city in the midst of a carnival celebration. Carnival…
