What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2020
The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2020!
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Posts Tagged: Marissa Korbel
From the Editors: Election 2020
Rumpus editors share their thoughts, fears, and concerns around the impending election.
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2020
A selection of AWP 2020 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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No Resolutions: Talking with Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her new story collection, VERGE.
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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The Thread: Lacuna
If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
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State of The Rumpus
Together, we will make it through this upcoming year.
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The Rumpus Top 30 of 2019
We share our thirty most-read pieces of 2019!
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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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The Thread: Hairy Mary Full of Grace
What a strange depiction. Mary, mother of Jesus, covered in hair.
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Hearing a Novella/Reading an Album: Talking with Katharine Coldiron
Katharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.
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The Thread: Ghosts at the Door
Ghosts, like women as people, are just a theory.
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Notable Portland: 11/7–11/13
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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The Rumpus Is Going to Portland!
The Rumpus celebrates literature at the Portland Book Festival!
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Notable Portland: 10/31–11/6
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Celebrating Queer Portland: A Conversation with Claire Rudy Foster
Foster discusses their new story collection, SHINE OF THE EVER.
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On Monsters: In Darkness and in Light
This month, take a deep dive into The Rumpus’s psyche.
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Reminder! Call for Submissions: “On Monsters”
Through 8/31, send us your essays exploring monsters and monstrosity!
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Call for Submissions: On Monsters
We’ll bring the anti-monster spray; you bring the incantations.
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The Thread: Art Monsters
I don’t want to be a martyr or a monster. I want to be human.
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This Week in (Reproductive Rights) Essays
Our storytelling, the sharing of our necessary truths, is needed now more than ever.
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The Thread: On Justice
I can’t speak, but I can scream.
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Unclenching the Body: A Conversation with Jennifer Pastiloff
Jennifer Pastiloff discusses her first book, ON BEING HUMAN.
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The Thread: The Stories We’ve Been Told
It’s just their story, and we don’t have to believe a word of it.
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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The Thread: The Unthought Known
The whole word suddenly fell apart, both as a concept, and as a sound.
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2019
A selection of AWP 2019 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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The Thread: Down Girl
Misogyny reminds us of our place: down girl.
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