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You’re in the Hands of a Pro: The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot by Jack Driscoll

The characters in this collection frequently daydream about time. Children and teens want to speed it up so life can start. Grown-ups ask time to slow, or rewind to get some of it back.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: I Died of Dysentery

The glorious ways we fifth graders died in Mr. Mosher’s computer class. We strove to die in the most imaginable permutations possible.

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FUNNY WOMEN #148: The Hindenburg Review Writers’ Workshop

Welcome to the Hindenburg Review Writers’ Workshop!

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On Suffering and Sympathy

What is the distance between sympathy and action? How do we travel from one to the other?

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Albums of Our Lives: The Front Bottoms’ The Front Bottoms

When I first heard Brian Sella’s sweet, pathetic voice sing these words, they seared a sense of guilt into me.

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The Healing Magic of Baseball

In that favorite summer of my memory, Mom is perched on the edge of the rickety folding chair in box seats that the team manager reserved for us.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Instructions for Replicating a Bad Summer

Compare yourself to a raw wound. Explain that everyone else is one too, whether they know it or not.

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Reading Mademoiselle Gantrel

We squinted into the smoky room and saw ourselves on junior year abroad, frolicking on the Left Bank with artists in berets like hers.

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The Rumpus Interview with Kaitlyn Greenidge

Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses her debut novel, We Love You, Charlie Freeman, siblinghood and sisterhood, and finding a group to call “my people” in the larger literary world.

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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: January Gill O’Neil

In Episode 12 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, January Gill O'Neil chats about her new collection, Misery Islands, writing pop culture into poetry, and the Red Sox.

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The Rumpus Interview with Elisa Ambrogio and Naomi Yang

Renaissance women Elisa Ambrogio and Naomi Yang discuss stop motion music videos, the female mythology of rock-n-roll, and giving ourselves permission to be creative, make music, and explore art in an intuitive way.

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Official Bards for the Bay State

All but six US states have official Poet Laureates; the Massachusetts House of Representatives is poised to cut that number down to five. Although many individual cities appoint poets to…

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