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Sound & Vision: Arthur Fournier

Allyson McCabe talks with Arthur Fournier, an independent dealer of books, serials, manuscripts, and archives, about how he developed his niche, and how digital access has both enriched and complicated the work of archiving and collecting.

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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jaimee Wriston Colbert

Life’s inequities can be cruel, but in the end we are all part of our communities; suffering though we may be, we are not alone.

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The Last Book I Loved: So Long, See You Tomorrow

By drawing us into his childhood, Maxwell shows us how to revisit our own. We become the storytellers of our own lives.

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This October Sunday

Here we are again, another one-run game, another last chance.

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Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Kathryn Stripling Byer

I reached out to her, and she reached back. A hug I’ll never forget.

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The Rumpus Interview with Lee Clay Johnson

Lee Clay Johnson discusses his novel Nitro Mountain, growing up with bluegrass musician parents, and what people are capable of under the right set of circumstances.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Corcoran

Jonathan Corcoran discusses his debut collection The Rope Swing, Appalachian writing communities, getting disowned by his family for coming out, and his father's death.

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The Other Half

By forcing blue-state liberal types to reckon with a demographic they had long dismissed as a punch line—low-income, uneducated whites in economically depleted regions—he [Donald Trump] awakened them to the fact…

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When Home Doesn’t Embrace

Roxane Gay is from the Midwest, but as a woman of color she feels like an outsider in the rural places she often inhabits. In an essay for Brevity, “Black in Middle…

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Chicago bookstores are worried about the arrival of a physical Amazon store. One bookstore is using clickbait tactics on social media to trick people into reading more books. Some people…

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The Rumpus Interview with Robin MacArthur

Robin MacArthur discusses her debut story collection Half Wild, life in rural Vermont, and how narrative—and fiction—is key to reaching across what divides us.

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