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Visitations: Gwendolyn Brooks at One Hundred

  • Julie R. Enszer
  • September 12, 2017
A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
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Ghostly Woman

  • Zoë Bossiere
  • May 15, 2017
I had never lived in a real haunted house. I didn’t know what any of the rules were. Could her presence cause physical harm?
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • March 8, 2017
Happy International Women’s Day! Why not read some essays if you have extra time today, starting with Dayna Tortorici laying out the reasons for striking today at n + 1. Timothy Denevi…
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The Rumpus Interview With Danielle Trussoni

  • David Byron Queen
  • March 3, 2017
Danielle Trussoni discusses her new memoir, The Fortress, black magic, the cult of marriage, and the dark side of storytelling.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Pinpricks

  • Leila Aboulela
  • January 7, 2017
Time is king. Believers, agnostics or atheists—humans or not: time rules us. We submit to it, surrender to it, and are shaped by it.
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Check out Any Time You Like, but You Can Never Leave

  • Tamara Matthews
  • November 1, 2016
Do you think he stood her up? At the altar I mean? Or left her afterwards? Or she found out he was having an affair? Ollie seems almost gleeful. Unhappy…
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Hallow Again

  • Brandon Hicks
  • October 30, 2016
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In This Hell Here With You

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 10, 2016
When people call other people crazy I don’t get mad, I get bored. When people tell me ghosts don’t exist, I just get bored. Over at JSTOR Daily, poet Dorothea…
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The Rumpus Review of Ghostbusters

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • July 28, 2016
An agenda can only exist when there is a contingent opposing it. We only push for representation when so many hours and characters of wrath are poured into keeping us out.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Laura Ballance’s Ghost Stories

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • June 9, 2016
There is one story that my mother used to tell me often, which has become in some ways a symbol of my childhood.
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Podcatcher #1: Oh No, Ross and Carrie!

  • P.E. Garcia
  • April 18, 2016
In the first installment of our new column all about podcasts, we talk with Ross Blocher and Carrie Poppy of Oh No, Ross and Carrie!.
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R.I.P.: The Time Is Near

  • Lee Matalone
  • January 21, 2016
This wasn’t my first attempt to commune with the dead.
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