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Compartment No. 6 by Rosa Liksom

  • John Flynn-York
  • August 14, 2016
John Flynn-York reviews Rosa Liksom's Compartment No. 6, now out from Graywolf in an English translation, today in Rumpus Books.
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Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia | Rumpus Music
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My Life with Annie Lennox: A Christmas Cornucopia

  • Abby Higgs
  • July 28, 2016
Perhaps part of what prompted me to get clean and sober was the fact I kept making myself uncomfortable.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Monkey Men

  • Chris Vanjonack
  • July 22, 2016
Still lying on the bed in the Wausau hotel room, I started counting ceiling tiles. From above the covers. Not under. Never under. I always feel constricted, under.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heather Havrilesky

  • Heather Kenny
  • July 10, 2016
We are in a chaotic mess of a world, and our lives are going to be chaotic messes no matter how victorious and shiny we manage to become.
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Bring It

  • Marcia Aldrich
  • June 17, 2016
I used to like my mother best when she killed a spider or fly with the palm of her hand.
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Reading Mademoiselle Gantrel

  • Janet Pocorobba
  • May 26, 2016
We squinted into the smoky room and saw ourselves on junior year abroad, frolicking on the Left Bank with artists in berets like hers.
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On Playing Games, Productivity, and Right Livelihood

  • Janet Frishberg
  • May 19, 2016
One week last spring I said it out loud for the first time: “Sometimes I play so long, my fingers go numb.”
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Annie Lennox - Bare | Rumpus Music
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My Life with Annie Lennox: Honestly

  • Abby Higgs
  • May 19, 2016
Oh, Annie, I thought, opening a can of beer. We’re going to be okay. Aren’t we?
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: I wanted to be sure to reach you

  • Haley Swanson
  • March 19, 2016
I have no answers, but I can feel my feet.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Swans and Other Lies

  • Anita Felicelli
  • February 26, 2016
As she presses against Patterson, she feels her feet softening, losing gravity. He’s embracing her, willing her to disappear, swallowing her.
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Clueless

  • Millicent Souris
  • February 3, 2016
To say I was clueless indicates that a clue even existed. To be fair, we all were.
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Only the Lives Worth Saving

  • Michelle Vider
  • January 4, 2016
For JSTOR Daily, Tara Isabella Burton revisits Prohibition during the Coolidge administration, when the moral outrage that pushed for Prohibition didn’t extend to saving the lives of people dying from…
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