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Rumpus Original Fiction: Wild Animals

  • Ren Weber
  • May 27, 2020
I searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
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Circuitous Journeys: Talking with Sejal Shah

  • Madhushree Ghosh
  • May 20, 2020
Sejal Shah discusses her debut essay collection, THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE.
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A Vocabulary for Apostates

  • Daniel Allen Cox
  • May 5, 2020
I needed to reshape the definitions of words that were used against me.
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Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • April 27, 2020
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #208: Stephen Van Dyck

  • Allie Rowbottom
  • February 20, 2020
“This reality is so much dustier, smellier, and bitterer than it seems through a screen.”
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Language Is Material: A Conversation with Simon(e) van Saarloos

  • Melissa Matthewson
  • January 20, 2020
Simon(e) van Saarloos discusses PLAYING MONOGAMY.
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Sentence by Sentence: Talking with Nicholas Mancusi

  • Ian MacAllen
  • January 3, 2020
Nick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope, Christmas: A Story in Four Epiphanies

  • Julianna Baggott
  • December 24, 2019
She can really throw herself into a stoning.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Call It Courage”

  • Colin Hamilton
  • November 4, 2019
She was living in little shack balanced among the branches of a tree.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Michele Filgate

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • May 22, 2019
Michele Filgate discusses WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON'T TALK ABOUT.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: A World in a Box

  • Justin Burnell
  • April 24, 2019
Saturday is a desert in a motel.
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A Hard-Won Love: NOS by Aby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman

  • Cassandra Cleghorn
  • April 19, 2019
The child is born of them, yet is other to them; they work on behalf, and yet despite, and also against her.
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