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San José
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Rumpus Original Fiction: La Yegüita
The hit below the belt worked. A jab like that was the quickest way to protect one’s denial.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Victoria Ruiz’s Grandma’s Grocery Board
I’m not a trained musician, but my grandma helped me to become fearless...
The Rumpus Interview with Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Than Nguyen discusses his story collection The Refugees, growing up in a Vietnamese community in San Jose in the 1980s, and the power of secondhand memories.
How Gone Is My Valley?
It does us all a disservice to separate the Valley’s current industrial action from that of its natural environment, human history and broader political context.
Tom Barbash Reading 10/30
Tom Barbash, Rumpus interviewee and author of a book that Stephen Elliott told Daily Rumpus subscribers made him cry, will be reading from his latest book Stay Up with Me in…
Aleksandar Hemon Reading
Aleksandar Hemon—Bosnian ex-pat, MacArthur genius grant recipient, and Rumpus interviewee—will be reading and signing books September 18th and 19th at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose.…
The Storm of Life
In a series of violent encounters, Peter Nathaniel Malae’s debut novel asks, What are we to do with men?