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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Lera

  • Julia Phillips
  • May 1, 2023
You keep the edge of your love sharp, a knife, so that those close to you know to handle it carefully. You think you’ve done it and then you discover that you’ve been endangering yourself to everybody you meet all this time.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Barong

  • E. P. Tuazon
  • July 28, 2021
Appearance aside, my boss took his work seriously.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Randa Jarrar

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • February 23, 2021
Randa Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
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True Detective and a Greyhound: On Imagination and Survival

  • Kate Branca
  • February 15, 2021
It’s exhausting, I realize, to constantly convince myself that I matter.
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Survival Soup

  • Andy Mingo
  • October 1, 2020
You could say that I have trained for this pandemic all my life.
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Acclimation

  • Sofia Puente-Lay
  • September 22, 2020
Such distinguished hybridity joined us all, animal and human, in a lonely, exclusive tribe.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #222: Kathryn Scanlan

  • Abby Walthausen
  • June 18, 2020
“I work slowly, from sentence to sentence, and attempt to stay attuned to opportunity.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope Get a Dog, A Story in Three Epiphanies

  • Julianna Baggott
  • May 13, 2020
He barks at Coco. Coco barks back.
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It’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life

  • Mary Mandeville
  • May 6, 2020
My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
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For the Love of Dogs: Jennifer Finney Boylan’s Good Boy

  • Tucker Coombe
  • April 8, 2020
In this sense, [the dogs] are a perfect foil for the conflicted young author.
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Small Breeds

  • Jackie Connelly
  • March 17, 2020
How do people function without the false promises of pressure?
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cameron Awkward-Rich

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 24, 2019
Cameron Awkward-Rich discusses his new collection, DISPATCH.
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