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What does it mean to believe in something: A Conversation with Nancy Marie Brown

  • Lily Raff McCaulou
  • October 10, 2022
But this sense of being able to open yourself up to wonder is something you can do at any age. You just have to open yourself to it. Frankly, for me, it's a whole lot easier to do that when you're out in the middle of nowhere, you're cold and you're hungry.
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Beauty in a Cold Season: Katherine May’s Wintering

  • Erin Winseman
  • March 17, 2021
As we go, we are breathlessly held in an in-between state, a limbo, a transition.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn

  • Ariel Gore
  • February 24, 2021
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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Everything Tastes Better in Winter

  • Lucia Iglesias
  • October 29, 2019
Perfection over pasta. Beauty over bread. The more it hurt, the better.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • January 29, 2019
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #140: Alicia Kopf

  • Courtney Maum
  • June 14, 2018
“We need narrative patterns to understand reality.”
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • December 19, 2017
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Opening the Hump

  • Oddný Eir
  • October 1, 2016
The trick is to pinpoint the time of the cycle, not to try to solve the mystery in the undertow. And to understand that everything needs time; you have to position yourself, warm up.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #71: A Michael Bay Film Eating Itself

  • Rick Moody
  • April 7, 2016
“Love,” then is not to be taken lightly here. It is being engaged at full force, megaphonically.
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The Panama Papers: A Rumpus Roundup

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 5, 2016
Over the weekend, journalists announced a leak of 11.5 million files from the law firm of Mossack Fonseca, a Panama-based law firm specializing in corporations designed to take advantage of…
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Iceland, Nation of Readers

  • Charley Locke
  • December 11, 2015
Holland isn’t the only Northern European country with unusual Christmas traditions. Icelanders pride themselves on being a nation of readers—93% of residents read at least one book a year, and…
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Literary Iceland

  • Stephanie Bento
  • November 25, 2015
Like the glaciers that cover much of the country, Iceland is covered with thick layers of stories. And like the volcanoes that roil beneath that icy crust, more stories are…
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