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Rumpus Exclusive: “Wisdom”

  • Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
  • July 16, 2018
“The devil has made a fool of you, but do you know Wisdom is at work, too?”
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Confessions of the Fox

  • Jordy Rosenberg
  • June 20, 2018
I liked the skeptical way she looked at me. I liked the way the air in the house felt with her in it.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Guy in Your MFA: An Origin Story“

  • Dana Schwartz
  • June 19, 2018
A Rumpus exclusive excerpt from Dana Schwartz's memoir, Choose Your Own Disaster, out today from Grand Central Publishing!
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Rumpus Exclusive: Three Excerpts from Tiny Crimes

  • The Rumpus
  • May 21, 2018
Three exclusive excerpts from the anthology Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, forthcoming on June 5!
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Research Notes”

  • Alicia Kopf
  • May 17, 2018
My mother says that I was born with my eyes open, and that I was looking at her.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Pigeon Manifesto”

  • Michelle Tea
  • May 7, 2018
The revolution will begin at your curb, in the shallow pool of shade that is your gutter.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman

  • Tessa Fontaine
  • May 1, 2018
Sometimes a story suddenly changes.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Last Civilized House” by Lee Martin

  • Lee Martin
  • April 26, 2018
Once upon a time, there was a man and a wife and a child that the wife decided she didn’t want.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Julia Stoops’s Parts Per Million

  • Julia Stoops
  • March 15, 2018
Kashan stares out at the crowd. “Saddam was hard. This is also hard.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Passing as Privileged”

  • Lilly Dancyger
  • March 5, 2018
I don’t feel ashamed of my history, I feel ashamed of letting it be erased.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Lucy Hughes-Hallet’s Peculiar Ground

  • Lucy Hughes-Hallett
  • January 9, 2018
Off what did Humpty Dumpty fall?
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Rumpus Exclusive: Three Excerpts from AFTERWORDS

  • The Rumpus
  • January 2, 2018
Three exclusive excerpts from …AFTERWORDS, a new series of distinctive commentaries on great works of contemporary literature from our friends at Fiction Advocate!
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