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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: No Good

  • Hala Alyan
  • December 26, 2022
The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
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Crybaby College Students and Their Bogus Trophies

  • Karen R. Tolchin
  • December 5, 2016
I’m a small blue dot living in a blood-red corner of a red state, so I’ve grown accustomed to hearing right wing talking points. I don’t like them, but they…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lynn Steger Strong

  • Michele Filgate
  • June 6, 2016
Lynn Steger Strong discusses her debut novel Hold Still, the influence of Virginia Woolf, unconditional love, and exit strategies.
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The Rumpus Interview with Bernadette Murphy

  • Eileen Donohue
  • May 20, 2016
Bernadette Murphy on her forthcoming book, Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life, the challenges of selling a memoir, and life beyond "the suburban-wife-mother picture."
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Goddesses

  • Sayantani Dasgupta
  • May 18, 2016
I closed my laptop. I thought of words such as “contexts” and “perspectives.” The next morning, I checked out an armload of books from the university library. I had to learn to defend Durga.
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Deep Conditioning with Wilson Phillips

  • Tom Pyun
  • March 31, 2016
“Don’t become a professor,” he said. “I’d rather you become a garbage man. They get paid more and have better benefits.”
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Who is really your professor?

  • Julie Morse
  • February 6, 2013
Who started the rumor that every university teacher should be called “professor”? The Billfold is here to refute the misconception with a list of cold facts on the labor practices…
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