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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dirty Little Secrets”

  • Tiffany Cates
  • January 4, 2021
They were alone, and in his apartment, but not in the way he’d imagined it to be.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Alone?

  • Nadia Shahbaz
  • December 16, 2020
Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
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Complicating Unhelpful Binaries: Talking with Deesha Philyaw

  • Nia Norris
  • December 16, 2020
Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
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Reality Is Changeable: Talking with Rachel Genn

  • Jo Varnish
  • December 11, 2020
Rachel Genn discusses her new novel, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON.
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Touching What Once Was: A Conversation with Meredith Clark

  • Shin Yu Pai
  • December 9, 2020
Meredith Clark discusses her debut lyric memoir, LYREBIRD.
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My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me

  • Edgar Gomez
  • December 1, 2020
There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.
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Identity Politics and the English Language: Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times

  • C.M. Mesquita
  • November 11, 2020
Who “owns” the English language?
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Where Words Often Fail: Talking with Bryan Washington

  • Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
  • October 28, 2020
Bryan Washington discusses his new novel, MEMORIAL.
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Voices on Addiction: There Were Also Girls, Women

  • Kat Moore
  • October 20, 2020
I always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.
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The Cost of Liberation: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

  • Keishel Williams
  • October 14, 2020
Patsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.
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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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Varied States of Breaking

  • Grace Roberson
  • August 5, 2020
This, I learned, is what rawness tasted like. I wanted more.
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