Rumpus Original Fiction: Red Cedar
A living tree is a dare.
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Posts Tagged: Ian MacAllen
Voices on Addiction: Washed Clean
That’s when I noticed John the Baptist standing chest-high in the middle of the narrow, easy-moving river.
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Space to Breathe
We inhale when we’re born, then breathe and breathe and breathe until one day we exhale our final breath.
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What to Read When 2022 Is Just Around the Corner
Books releasing in the first half of 2022 that we can’t wait to read!
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A Year In Rumpus Book Reviews 2020
A look back at the books we reviewed in 2020!
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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2020
The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2020!
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From the Editors: Election 2020
Rumpus editors share their thoughts, fears, and concerns around the impending election.
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The Privilege of Art: Courtney Maum’s Costalegre
There is no real freedom to create art, only the obligation to wealth.
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Sentence by Sentence: Talking with Nicholas Mancusi
Nick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.
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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2019
The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2019!
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2018!
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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2018
The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2018!
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Notable NYC: 8/11–8/17
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 7/7–7/13
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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Tarnished, Shiny Exteriors: Kate Braverman’s A Good Day for Seppuku
With A Good Day for Seppuku, Braverman has written a collection of intense images and exacting language
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Nominations for the First Annual Woke Men Awards
The most important night for fragile male egos is nearly upon us.
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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2017
The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2017!
...moreThe Times Issues Human Family Holiday Guidelines for the Newsroom
We believe that to remain the world’s best news organization, we must allow journalists time with these human families.
...moreThe Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to… Kenny G
Rumpus editors share our Nobel Prize in Literature predictions with you!
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From the Editors: On Charlottesville and White Supremacy
Rumpus editors share their thoughts on Charlottesville and white supremacy. When we have a platform to speak out against hatred and bigotry, we must use it to do so.
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Embrace the Physical World: Touch by Courtney Maum
Touch is a compelling argument that we should embrace the physical world, genuine human connections, and reject the technology that comes between us and other people.
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Names Are Always the First Lock on Any Cage: Talking with Dolan Morgan
Dolan Morgan discusses his latest short story collection, Insignificana, losing his favorite jacket, Internet comments, and the ending of Lost.
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Culdesac by Robert Repino
Ian MacAllen reviews Culdesac by Robert Repino today in Rumpus Books.
...moreNotable NYC: 11/26–12/2
Saturday 11/26: Sarah Kay, Maeve Higgins, Phil Kaye, and Mark Doss read for refugees, as part of the Festival to Improve the World. The Wild Project, 4 p.m., $10. Monday 11/28: Jason Diamond launches Searching for John Hughes with a conversation with Danielle Henderson. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free. David Rivard and Sarah Sarai join the […]
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From the Editors: Election 2016
This election is critical. We are code-red. We might elect our first woman president, or we might elect a man who is at best dangerous and unqualified and at worst the end of democracy as we know it today.
...more“I knew from the beginning I wanted to tell the story”
It’s been a big week—no, month—no, year—for Rumpus Essays Editor Roxanne Gay, who has two books coming out this summer, both of which have already been widely praised. Yesterday, Gay talked with Rumpus contributor Sari Botton at a Vol. 1 Brooklyn event at Community Bookstore. English Kills Review details the conversation.
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