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Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Jay Baron Nicorvo

So my No-Trump Vote is for all the grown kids of single mothers, in the hope that they come to value—before it’s too late—the person who more closely resembles our sacrificing moms than our dodgy deadbeat dads.

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The Rumpus Review of One More Time with Feeling

“We didn’t ask for it,” Cave begins another poetic flight, and again we think he’s talking about something ghastly, “but it’s all around us, a gratuitous beauty.”

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The Middle Season

My doctor told me to begin with adding five minutes to my morning walk. During those five minutes, I recalled the life I’d once had—that intense life that ambition gave me—and the man I’d once been.

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Meditation

We looked up as we moved. A handful of stars watched us behind a ripped black canvas of clouds. It started to rain as we all got to our cars. The skies poured down globs of heavy rain that burst out like tiny bombs around us.

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The Insanity of Eating

I didn’t usually consider how the binge felt. I just ate until I couldn’t eat anymore.

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Spotlight: “A Farmer’s Hands” by Dale Vande Griend

I grew up on a farm in Iowa where my dad has worked every day of his life. He is the hardest working yet most loving man I have ever known.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Monkey Men

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 Rumpus Interview with Jamie Brickhouse

Jamie Brickhouse discusses Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother, a memoir that chronicles his intimate, near-fatal journey through alcoholism, and living HIV positive.

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The Rumpus Interview with Garrard Conley

Garrard Conley, author of the new memoir Boy Erased, discusses growing up in the deep South, mothers, writing for change, and political delusions.

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Someone Who Makes Something from Nothing

Walter Mosley reflects on his father’s life in the Deep South and the influence he had on his son’s growth as a writer: When I was 13, I asked him what he…

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No Context, No Clue

An ad campaign by Penguin Random House in the UK meant to intrigue readers into purchasing classic books has instead sparked controversy for being anti-Russian. The ad features an unattributed line from the…

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