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Writing Hurricanes and Conjuring Ghosts: A Conversation with J. Nicole Jones

  • Beth Ward
  • May 14, 2021
J. Nicole Jones discusses her debut memoir, LOW COUNTRY.
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A Travel Guide to the City of Ghosts

  • B.J. Hollars
  • August 16, 2018
Standing alone before the house, I think: love can be a sad, strange thing.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 13, 2018
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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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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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Do You Have a Beau?

  • Ariel Gore
  • July 3, 2016
Shame is the haunting that’s hardest to scrub away.
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Weekly Geekery

  • Lyz Lenz
  • March 8, 2016
The rationalizations for irrational behavior. Failing up in Silicon Valley. Men’s feelings are mucking up research. The Internet is creepy.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • July 17, 2015
Revise your summer reading lists, ladies and gentlemen, because this week brought us new issues of Guernica and Asymptote to bump to the top of the pile. Asymptote delivers more…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rebecca Makkai

  • Ellen Birkett Morris
  • December 8, 2014
Rebecca Makkai talks about ghosts, teaching, chronology in writing, and her new novel, The Hundred-Year House.
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Readers Report: Haunted

  • Susan Clements
  • October 31, 2014
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Haunted.”
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