Mixed Feelings: How to Make Friends after Thirty
The problem is we tend to let romantic love eclipse all else.
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Posts Tagged: Mandy Len Catron
The Rumpus Top 30 of 2019
We share our thirty most-read pieces of 2019!
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Mixed Feelings: A Better Version of Love
You are free to love others as if it were a pleasure and a privilege, because that’s exactly what it is.
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Mixed Feelings: A Valentine to Aging Women
Letting go of these ideas about a woman’s value feels like the obvious thing to do, but it’s really hard.
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The Rumpus Top 20 of 2018
We share our twenty most-read pieces of 2018!
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Mixed Feelings: How to Trust after Trauma
I don’t believe the problem of rape culture is beyond resolution, but I know that you’re not the one responsible for solving it.
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Mixed Feelings: Two Roads Diverged at a Picket Fence
Here we are standing the woods. Which path should we take?
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Next Letter in the Mail: V.V. Ganeshananthan
Our next Letter in the Mail is from V.V. Ganeshananthan!
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Get Your Signed Copy of How to Fall in Love with Anyone Today!
Through 9/30, get a signed copy of HOW TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ANYONE by Mandy Len Catron!
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Next Letter in the Mail: Mandy Len Catron (& Signed Book Giveway)
Our next Letter in the Mail is from Mandy Len Catron, + get a signed copy of HOW TO FALL IN LOVE WITH ANYONE!
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What to Read When Beach Weather Arrives
Rumpus editors suggest some of their favorite summertime reads!
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Going Off-Script: A Conversation with Mandy Len Catron
Mandy Len Catron discusses How to Fall in Love with Anyone: A Memoir in Essays, what makes for a thoughtful love story, and the politics of love.
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Scripting New Narratives: Mandy Len Catron’s How to Fall in Love with Anyone
I can’t help but wonder what if, in detangling love stories and our relationships to them, Catron is building yet another narrative—an anti-narrative, perhaps—of love.
...moreNotable NYC: 6/24–6/30
Saturday 6/24: Juan Martinez, Jimin Han, and Paul Cohen celebrate debut fiction. Spoonbill & Sugartown, 7 p.m., free. Sunday 6/25: Rob Hill, Omotara James, Meghan E.B. Lin, and Phil Demise Smith celebrate the launch of the latest issue of Newtown Literary. Socrates Sculpture Park, 4 p.m., free.
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