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Rumpus Original Fiction: Summer of Families

  • Scott Broker
  • March 8, 2017
“What do you think about this,” he said, measured and cool. “What if we offer a service where people can pay to be in our family, but only for a few hours.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen

  • Beverly Parayno
  • March 8, 2017
Viet Than Nguyen discusses his story collection The Refugees, growing up in a Vietnamese community in San Jose in the 1980s, and the power of secondhand memories.
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The Hostage

  • Brandon Hicks
  • March 5, 2017
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Abeer Hoque

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • February 22, 2017
Abeer Hoque talks about coming of age in the predominantly white suburbs of Pittsburgh, rewriting her memoir manuscript ten times, and looking for poetry in prose.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #71: Kris D’Agostino

  • Mickie Meinhardt
  • February 16, 2017
In Kris D’Agostino’s second novel, The Antiques, he returns to familiar forms: A dysfunctional family whose members are in various stages of arrested development; a generational home in upstate New…
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Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Five Poems by Jan-Henry Gray

  • Jan-Henry Gray
  • February 12, 2017
Dry-mouthed, standing shoulder to shoulder, / They watch the carousel spit out black bags / And mumble "not mine" over and over.
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jason Diamond

  • Sari Botton
  • February 10, 2017
Jason Diamond discusses his memoir Searching for John Hughes, confronting his childhood abuse, avoiding his parents, and writing about all of it.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: A Taste of Something, Slowly Over Time

  • Lito Velázquez
  • February 4, 2017
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #16: The Game Is On

  • Charles Kruger
  • February 3, 2017
Today is the day that Pr*sident Trump shut down the American borders to refugees, green card holders, and non-citizens with paid for and improved visas—if they were from certain “Muslim…
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Voices on Addiction: A Bad Night

  • Barbara Straus Lodge
  • February 3, 2017
Trying to protect him from himself is like trying to protect atmosphere from weather.
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The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Yancy

  • Ann K. Ryles
  • February 3, 2017
Melissa Yancy discusses her debut story collection Dog Years, using her day job for inspiration, and being “an old curmudgeon at heart.”
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Otter

  • Greg Wrenn
  • February 1, 2017
The emblem, not the animal, mattered. We swatted mosquitoes, made no pilgrimages to Vermont to see bears and moose. I wanted to get as close as possible to my potential animal totem.
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