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Deplorable Men Need Love Too

  • Tamara Matthews
  • October 25, 2016
She went on to become a Siberian housewife. He went on to call for the executions of ten million Russians. But she thought back on their evenings drinking and dancing.…
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#Betrayal: On Instagram, Is Hell Other Women?

  • MJ Corey
  • October 20, 2016
Instagram: an app powerful enough to blow a million Think Pieces to smithereens in everything it says about female relations.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: (On My Throat)

  • Wes Jamison
  • October 16, 2016
...the connection between the throat and heart and that which they represent: voice and love.
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Cream

  • R.A. Tallitsch
  • October 5, 2016
My lungs felt stretched thin, like a balloon that could pop, or make my whole chest rise. So, I inhaled. This is the man I married.
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Lover as Audience, Twitter as Community

  • Rosamund Lannin
  • October 3, 2016
At Electric Literature, poet and critic K. Thomas Khan walks through the unraveling of a relationship, deliberate isolation from online life, and the questions both raise in a lyrical, longform piece…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Anne Raeff

  • Lori Ostlund
  • September 18, 2016
Married authors Anne Raeff and Lori Ostlund, both winners of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, discuss their craft, their process, and the way they negotiate the give and take involved in sharing a vocation.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Twenty-Three Pieces of the Sunset Bowl

  • Kate Lebo
  • September 10, 2016
[A]ll over town, pits in the ground stayed pits in the ground. Those cavities were my consolation. For the moment, we were all in the hole.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Night

  • Theo Pauline Nestor
  • September 3, 2016
With these young women, I no longer slip in and out of places undetected. With them, my cloak of invisibility—my only known superpower—has been removed.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: State Facts for the New Age

  • Amy Sauber
  • September 2, 2016
“I’m a shock absorber for tragedy,” I say, not really knowing what I mean. “Maybe I should just move to Hawaii. I hear that’s a happy place to live.”
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Baking Lessons: Needing, Rising, and Letting Go

  • Debka Colson
  • August 30, 2016
When I took those breaths, I also learned to say, “I am enough, I am enough, I am enough.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Christine Sneed

  • Floyd Skloot
  • August 28, 2016
Floyd Skloot interviews Christine Sneed about her latest story collection, The Virginity of Famous Men.
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The Mortgage Arrangement

  • Janis Cooke Newman
  • August 26, 2016
It’s true that real estate can’t save a marriage. But it might be equally true that it can save a relationship.
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