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I wanted to be able to frame the story within this understanding that these are powerful forces and that these are stories we’ve heard a lot before, and that these stories get in the way of, or make it hard to understand or even listen to, a more authentic or more real story about who people are or can be.
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Twice a month, The Rumpus brings your favorite writers directly to your IRL mailbox via our Letters in the Mail programs.
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Rumpus recommendations for books to gift to friends and family this holiday season!
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Megan Stielstra discusses her recently rereleased books EVERYONE REMAIN CALM and ONCE I WAS COOL.
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Liz Asch discusses her new book, YOUR SALT ON MY LIPS.
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Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
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Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate APIA Heritage Month!
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Ethel Rohan shares a reading list to celebrate IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.
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Calling on spirits is a communal act, multiple hands on the planchette.
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Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Books releasing in the first half of 2021 that we can’t wait to read!
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Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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Matthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.
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Matthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.
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Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Rumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!
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Find out what The Rumpus Book Club is reading in July!
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Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate APIA Heritage Month!
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Nicole Chung discusses ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW.
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Can one love one’s country into a better version of itself? And can that love better the self?
...moreHere’s what I mean by not centering the author of the workshop piece: I always tell my students, following the lead of my favorite MFA professor, that the truth is that workshop is most helpful to the person talking, not the person being workshopped. Not that it isn’t or can’t be helpful to the person […]
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As an editor of color, one advantage I have is that writers of color are comfortable knowing I’m not asking for edits to artificially enhance or to cover up their race. It’s not weird to me that their characters look like them.
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Michael Copperman reviews Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales by Tom Williams.
...moreThe worst insult people hurl at adoptees is that they are “ungrateful” and should “go back” (to their “own” countries, to their old families). That is the moment when adoption becomes a gift—because that is the moment when it becomes clear that adoption belongs to people like the adoptive parent and not people like the […]
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I am reminded of how we know something is there, sometimes, by its absence, how dark matter is said to exist because of so much missing mass.
...moreFor Salon, Teddy Wayne interviews six prominent authors on what has shaped their thoughts into word: with Lauren Groff, Alexandra Kleeman, Helen Phillips, Matthew Salesses, Steve Toltz, and Claire Vaye Watkins.
...moreAt Electric Literature, Matthew Salesses discusses the works of Joseph Conrad and Flannery O’Connor to explore the problem of unconscious prejudice and unintentional racism in writing, and how writers can avoid it: The writing of fiction cannot treat marginalized characters as vessels, cannot let the plot play out the racism of under-enlightened protagonists. Perhaps the […]
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