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Voices on Addiction: War Hero

  • Karie Fugett
  • December 18, 2018
A seagull plummeted into the wounded water.
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Spotlight: “My Dead Friend’s Favorite Book”

  • Tessa Hulls
  • December 4, 2018
Whenever I need to be close to Chelsea and the lessons she taught me, all I have to do is read.
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R.I.P.: Baby Bird

  • Lee Matalone
  • November 20, 2018
So much land, so much quiet.
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Off the Interstate, into Real Experience: Talking with Erica Trabold

  • Jenny Boully
  • November 9, 2018
Erica Trabold discusses her debut essay collection, FIVE PLOTS.
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Writing When Your Life Depends on It

  • Katherine Min
  • November 6, 2018
Do I want to live, or do I want to write? Sometimes I think it’s that simple.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Basement

  • Adrienne Celt
  • October 17, 2018
Looking back, it feels like I knew.
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My Nebraska is Only One Nebraska: Erica Trabold’s Five Plots

  • Kristine Langley Mahler
  • October 10, 2018
Five Plots wades into the enigmatic relationships between family and memory, where truth is seemingly as placid as the Platte River but re-examination causes a re-route.
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Don’t Go On The Beach!

  • Brandon Hicks
  • September 30, 2018
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A Weeping Tree of His Own: Yasunari Kawabata’s Dandelions

  • Mike Broida
  • September 20, 2018
Blindness as a concept is central to Kawabata’s novel, where every character is blind to something.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Love Is That?

  • Elizabeth Gonzalez James
  • September 12, 2018
Nothing in Texas came easy.
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Grieving at the Santa Maria Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

  • Megan Kirby
  • September 10, 2018
I don’t know what I expected.
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A Legacy of Wisdom: The Final Voicemails by Max Ritvo

  • Risa Denenberg
  • August 24, 2018
Is death a miracle or destruction?
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