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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #76: Chris Tusa

Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Chris Tusa’s second novel, In the City of Falling Stars (Livingston Press, September 2016), tells a tale of paranoia and intrigue. Maurice Delahoussaye witnesses dead birds…

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Chicago’s bookstores, bracing against the looming arrival of a physical Amazon store, are stronger than ever. Check out this roundup of local indie stores. Fišer bookstore, a Prague institution since the 1930s,…

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jade Chang

Jade Chang discusses her new novel The Wangs vs. the World, citizen journalism, and how to write an immigrant story that's not all about pain.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Less Than I Hope For

If we want to talk about desire, a gnawing ache for something we don’t yet have, or for something we’ve lost, we can say that we yearn for the transformation that the satisfaction of our desire will bring.

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R.I.P.: Odd Habits

I would really like to see a coming back or recreation of funeral rites. Let’s create new ones. Let’s take this matter into our own hands.

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The Recipe to Decolonized Love is in Beyoncé’s Lemonade

“There is a curse that will be broken,” she promises.

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Saturday was Independent Bookstore Day and hundreds of shops across the country celebrated with discounts, events, and readings. The Bookworm Omaha is the only official bookseller at the annual Berkshire…

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R.I.P.: Fantastic Casket

As far as the market right now, this is the moment to own it on caskets because we have the baby boomer generation coming up, and they’re doubling the number of deaths that are happening.

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The Conversation: José Olivarez and Nate Marshall

There are so many spaces in this country where I feel unsafe particularly because of my body.

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There Is No Such Thing as a True Story

Perspective is a fickle beast, and memory is an unreliable traveling companion through the years.

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Reading New Orleans

In the spirit of Mardi Gras, Veronica Brooks-Sigler has compiled a list of books inspired by the complex city of New Orleans over at Lit Hub.

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Music

Beyoncé’s “Formation”

This Saturday, Beyoncé dropped “Formation,” her first single since 2014. The song came one day before the Queen’s Superbowl 50 appearance and was accompanied by a free download via Tidal, Pitchfork reports.…

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