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grandfathers

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Bones of Buried Kings

  • Annalisa Bolin
  • September 21, 2021
What makes a body violable? This jaw, a piece of evidence. This body, the remains of a life.
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My Grandfather’s Laugh Is like Thread

  • Wendie Yeung
  • July 27, 2021
Is he there? Does he hear? Does he understand?
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Rice Cake Love

  • Breann Wong
  • December 5, 2019
I’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Grace

  • Brandon Taylor
  • July 10, 2017
After the anger came a deep, resigned sadness, as if her cruise were canceled at the last minute. She’s stuck on the shore of her life, watching everyone she loves sail into the distance.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jon Raymond

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • January 25, 2017
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jon Raymond about his new novel Freebird, intergenerational trauma, and the unshakeable love of family.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Suit

  • David Biespiel
  • June 7, 2016
It was as if he understood that the authentic must begin in the voice. And through the texture of the voice—its moral and psychological claims—sensory details emerge with absolute authority.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Torres’s Family Portrait

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • April 14, 2016
I’m constantly making up stories, and writing histories, even when I’m not putting them into songs.
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What They Never Told Me, What I Never Asked: Reflecting on Roots and Writing

  • Warren Adler
  • March 7, 2016
[T]he questions pile up, never to be answered.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Photos that Remember Us

  • Matthew Daddona
  • January 11, 2015
Mathew Daddona's father and uncle were adopted into different families. When they reunited with each other and their biological father as adults, they uncovered connections that extend through the generations.
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Mile 0

  • Brian Oliu
  • October 23, 2014
It starts with zero. No matter how many times we begin, everything begins again.
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For Lack of Anything Better

  • Dave Madden
  • October 21, 2014
The curse of being a writer is knowing other people. I need other people (to write about) but I can’t handle other people (the way I can literary characters).
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Against Everything

  • J.M. Gamble
  • September 2, 2014
The mountains of Alabama are small mountains—foothills, really—but they are mine like a sports team is mine—like a football game (which I have for so long been near but have not really, really seen) is mine—as in the phrase “We scored! We scored!”
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