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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction—The Christmas Party

  • Mina Seçkin
  • January 10, 2022
I laugh. My laugh, this thing that sounds better on somebody else.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight

  • Davon Loeb
  • June 30, 2021
He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
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Mixed Feelings: How to Make Friends after Thirty

  • Mandy Len Catron
  • February 10, 2020
The problem is we tend to let romantic love eclipse all else.
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A Divine Comedy of Experience: Hannah Ensor’s Love Dream with Television

  • Irene Cooper
  • December 20, 2019
Art is a fickle running buddy, legacy jumps out unexpectedly, and love is too serious not to joke about.
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Removed

  • Marléne Zadig
  • July 9, 2018
This is a cautionary tale, of how trying to be a tough girl can almost destroy you.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Night

  • Theo Pauline Nestor
  • September 3, 2016
With these young women, I no longer slip in and out of places undetected. With them, my cloak of invisibility—my only known superpower—has been removed.
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Making the Fantasy a Reality

  • Theodora Messalas
  • July 15, 2016
It’s particularly pleasurable to read interview between writers who know each other well. Over at Oxford American, long-time friends Ada Limón and Manuel Gonzales discuss Gonzales’s new novel, The Regional…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Unrecognized Brownie, Circa 1978

  • Maia Morgan
  • June 5, 2016
I picture families lingering over albums in the faraway future, someone leaning over someone else’s shoulder, pointing at me, asking, Who was that?
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: In Defense of Not Cooking

  • Becca Schuh
  • December 19, 2015
Should there be a Bechdel test for women in the kitchen?
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Amazon Knows Your Friends

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 13, 2015
Amazon is deciding who you are friends with—even if you aren’t. The retailer is using that information to scrub book reviews from customers who might be friends with authors, reports…
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The Rumpus Illustrated Interview with Megan Amram

  • Sara Lautman
  • February 9, 2015
Comedy writer and Twitter phenomenon Megan Amram talks time-travel, Jewish movie agents, and her new book Science . . . For Her!
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Defining

  • Robin McCarthy
  • January 14, 2014
She warns me not to speak any of these words out loud. They are so terrible, she explains, that good girls like me, and good women like her, never say them.
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