Rumpus Original Fiction: La Yegüita
The hit below the belt worked. A jab like that was the quickest way to protect one’s denial.
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Posts Tagged: costa rica
The Queer Syllabus: Chavela by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Tongue Goes
“In a nutshell,” he said, “they’re going to excise a dime-sized piece of your tongue and replace it with muscle and tendons from your left wrist.”
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Used-Car Salesman
I wondered if he understood my joke, or its evasion, but surely he knew a used-car salesman always fudged his story. In fact, the car had been in my possession all of three weeks. Also, it didn’t exactly belong to me.
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All of the Above
Any Nigerian will tell you that a woman without a husband is nothing.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Vanessa Blakeslee
I don’t want to waste readers’ time with a several hundred-page novel that’s not relevant to the wicked problems we’re facing today.
...moreThe Latin American Traveler’s Guide in Moby-Dick
Here’s a hypothesis: one of the reasons Moby-Dick has survived so long in English classes is that the number of Moby-Dick-related essay topics is almost limitless. Moby-Dick is so vast and contains so much stuff—there’s no better word for it than “stuff”—that you could come up with new angles on it for a whole English […]
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Nick Spicer asks if BP might have something in common with Captain Ahab. Apparently, there was a time when presidents weren’t all rich guys. How an online community saved two Russian women from falling prey to sex traffickers. Did you know that Costa Rica has a sloth orphanage? Now you do. (No, I’m not above […]
...moreEverything Reminds Me of Everything
About two weeks after I leave Costa Rica, a 6.2 magnitude earthquake will ravage an area about twenty miles outside the capital.
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