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Loneliness

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Broder

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • May 16, 2018
Melissa Broder discusses her debut novel, The Pisces (Hogarth, May 2018), the importance of love between women, and mermaid sex.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Summer of Families

  • Scott Broker
  • March 8, 2017
“What do you think about this,” he said, measured and cool. “What if we offer a service where people can pay to be in our family, but only for a few hours.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Brit Bennett

  • Abigail Bereola
  • October 17, 2016
Brit Bennett discusses her debut novel The Mothers, investigating “what-if” moments, and navigating racism in white spaces.
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You Are Never Alone If There’s a Poem

  • Tamara Matthews
  • September 27, 2016
I’ve often wondered if my turn to poetry in times of loneliness and uncertainty is a behavior that’s naturally implicit within the genre or if it upholds some cliché notion…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Unrecognized Brownie, Circa 1978

  • Maia Morgan
  • June 5, 2016
I picture families lingering over albums in the faraway future, someone leaning over someone else’s shoulder, pointing at me, asking, Who was that?
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Just Dance

  • Stephanie Bento
  • March 9, 2016
Well, that’s the point of being alone—it’s not anything to do with you. It’s about being something in someone else’s life, and no one ever knows the difference, or the…
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Dear McSweeney’s: Two Letters from Stephen Elliott

  • Stephen Elliott
  • February 18, 2016
I’ve been traveling for two weeks and people prone to the kind of thoughts I’m prone to should never be alone out in the world.
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Goodbye, Starman

  • Allyson McCabe
  • January 14, 2016
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Bowie saved my life on more than one occasion. And now that he’s gone, I’m at a loss again.
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This Week in Short Fiction

  • Claire Burgess
  • December 4, 2015
Over the last several weeks, The Offing has been releasing a stream of stunning work from its 2015 Trans Issue, and the collection of transgender/non-binary voices they’ve cultivated forms one of…
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War Narratives #4: Meet the Civilians

  • Caleb Cage
  • November 11, 2015
Each character achieves independence in his own way, but independence winds up looking a lot like loneliness.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Remembering Molly

  • Lisa Ellison
  • October 31, 2015
Ten years later I still wondered about those aviator glasses and whether The Breakfast Club could restore us.
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of The Martian

  • Louise Fabiani
  • October 24, 2015
It is the story of an astronaut stranded on Mars for about a year, all by himself.
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