My Grandfather’s Laugh Is like Thread
Is he there? Does he hear? Does he understand?
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Posts Tagged: communist
Writing Resistance: A Conversation with J. Kasper Kramer
J. Kasper Kramer discusses her debut novel, THE STORY THAT CANNOT BE TOLD.
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Rice Cake Love
I’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Some Poetry about Socialism”
My stomach fluttered. My cheeks flushed. They never said no.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Blue Tears”
On certain nights, if I’m lucky, wisps of the shore begin to glow blue, an unearthly electric color, like someone in the sea has a flashlight and is shining it upward.
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Vocabulary Lessons in Bucharest
I felt unhinged in my moments of isolation, and frustrated in my muteness.
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Revolution Books in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan is literally advocating for real revolution. Broadway Books in Portland, Oregon spent Inauguration Day handing out Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists. Dallas, Texas is getting an independent bookstore.
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