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Men Haunting Men: A conversation with Richard Mirabella

  • Marissa Higgins
  • March 15, 2023
Maybe being haunted is just feeling something crooked nearby
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Sons and Daughters

  • Ben Jatos
  • March 15, 2022
Boys were boys and girls were girls and gender norms were there for a reason. We didn’t realize the reason was to keep women down. Maybe we just didn’t care.
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A Childhood Story

  • Adam Carter
  • January 4, 2022
My father didn’t like my movie choices. He said they weren’t realistic. He’d been in the Air Force and was deployed in Vietnam. He’d brought back his own war stories.
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Disclosing Disability and Finding Freedom: Talking with James Tate Hill

  • Jess deCourcy Hinds
  • November 24, 2021
James Tate Hill discusses his new memoir, BLIND MAN’S BLUFF.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Gene Kwak

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • November 17, 2021
Gene Kwak discusses his debut novel, GO HOME, RICKY!
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On Ghosting

  • Aidan Forster
  • November 9, 2021
To ghost, to refuse, to satisfy yourself with yourself, felt impossibly newfangled, like something I’d like to try.
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Before

  • Danielle Cadena Deulen and Shara Lessley
  • October 28, 2021
The mind, you see, wants better weather. The mind wants to believe what suits it best.
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Felt Space

  • Lee Anderson
  • September 23, 2021
If I were to stare into a mirror, I’m not sure I would see anything back.
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We Are More: Shattering the Ethnic Monolith Myth in The Gimmicks

  • Aram Mrjoian
  • August 3, 2021
To say the past is in the past ignores the abundant ways it controls their lived experience.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight

  • Davon Loeb
  • June 30, 2021
He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
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The Seductive Nature of Faith: Talking with Alex McElroy

  • Greg Mania
  • May 17, 2021
Alex McElroy discusses their debut novel, THE ATMOSPHERIANS.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Soft Butch”

  • Nora E. Derrington
  • May 10, 2021
For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be strong, to be tough. I didn’t want to be soft.
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