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1972: War was waging in Vietnam and kids were coming home in boxes. Hippes and yippies went clean for Gene McCarthy, but George McGovern won the democratic nomination. Tricky Dick Nixon…

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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Abeer Hoque

Abeer Hoque talks about coming of age in the predominantly white suburbs of Pittsburgh, rewriting her memoir manuscript ten times, and looking for poetry in prose.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Bob and Dave

The threat of perfunctory conversation looms. Raza reaches for his headphones, but it is too late. The man is already talking to him.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: No Wound

Maybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Monkey’s Paw in Toronto sells random books from a biblio-mat machine. A manhunt is on for a thief who stole two rare books in New York City. The last bookstore…

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To celebrate Small Business Saturday, President Obama shopped at Upshur Street Books in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington DC. Magers & Quinn, an independent Minneapolis bookseller, has been open on…

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A Coney Island of the Mind

My money is no good here. I may wear the clothes or speak the language, but something in my manner always betrays me as foreign. Despite my chosen title, I do not belong in Brooklynstan.

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Why Muslims Felt Excluded in India

Part of [Gandhi’s] genius was he was able to broaden out the appeal of the independence movement…But the way he did it was by using Hindu iconography and stories, mythology…He…

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The Throwaways

Nazir lies buried in the mind’s forbidden faraways, on the margin of the village graveyard, obscured by nettle.

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The Voice of Secondary Trauma

In his review of Bilal Tanweer’s The Scatter Here is Too Great, Jess Row writes about the trauma that’s influenced so many of Pakistan’s novelists: Pakistan is a country where…

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The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Alexandra Atiya, Salman Toor, and Juliacks

The New York Comics & Picture-Story Symposium is a weekly forum for discussing the tradition and future of text/image work. Open to the public, it meets Monday nights 7-9 p.m.…

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Ode to Malala

Girls Write Now, an organization dedicated to offering creative opportunities to underserved and at-risk girls in New York City public high schools, just released a music video called “Ode to Malala.”…

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Pakistan

The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #21: Not Yesterday’s Demonstrations

VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Abeer Hoque

Rumpus Original Fiction: Bob and Dave

This Week in Indie Bookstores

This Week in Indie Bookstores

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A Coney Island of the Mind

Why Muslims Felt Excluded in India

The Throwaways

The Voice of Secondary Trauma

The New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium: Alexandra Atiya, Salman Toor, and Juliacks

Ode to Malala

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