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Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Padma Viswanathan

  • Padma Viswanathan
  • September 26, 2016
Is it that she is an immigrant to the US and was an immigrant to Canada before that, a brown woman on both sides of the border, viewed with suspicion that sometimes gets explicit?
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The Rumpus Interview with Leland Cheuk

  • Lyz Lenz
  • September 16, 2016
Leland Cheuk discusses his novel The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, dark humor, cancer, morally corrupt characters, and his mother.
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Our Secret Family Legacy

  • Ashlie Kauffman
  • August 31, 2016
When I was young, she would tell me we were part Navajo.
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The Rumpus Interview with Nina Stibbe

  • Catherine Cusick
  • August 22, 2016
Author Nina Stibbe discusses her new novel Paradise Lodge, our obsession with character likeability, and how she more than flirts with feminism.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Mandarin Imperial

  • Elysha Chang
  • August 19, 2016
Growing up, I understood my father through observation, and I suspect that he understood me much the same way. I liked to think our love was purer that way. Like two stray dogs who found each other and are blessed enough to just get along.
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Remnants

  • Amy Robillard
  • August 15, 2016
There were six people under the same roof, surviving but not living. Because living requires stories.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Heirlooms

  • Naseem Jamnia
  • August 13, 2016
The strings of our DNA mark us as one, but it’s the roots of our memories that bind us.
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The Rumpus Interview with Annie DeWitt

  • Tracy O'Neill
  • August 10, 2016
Annie DeWitt discusses her debut novel, White Nights in Split Town City, the 90s, and the brutality of nature.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Losing at Memory

  • Lea Page
  • August 7, 2016
But I didn’t understand, then, how important memory is, for how do we know who we are without memory? How does anyone else know who we are, but for their memories of us?
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The Rumpus Interview with Ann Packer

  • Angela Pneuman
  • August 5, 2016
Ann Packer discusses her most recent novel The Children's Crusade, artistic mothers, the writer and her “first principle,” and the fight to like your own characters.
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Colorama

  • Andrea L. Volpe
  • August 2, 2016
How does one scene impress itself on us, so that we remember it better than we should if we were in it? Or rest, just below the surface, present, but unnoticed?
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Voices on Addiction: Too Much Hope

  • Chris J. Rice
  • July 1, 2016
I wanted more time with him, but I didn’t want to hope. Too much hope will mess you up.
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