short fiction
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Unsettled Memories: First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
Author and narrator, fiction and memory, never settle comfortably into their proper places.
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On Monsters and Mythology: A Conversation with Alex DiFrancesco
Alex DiFrancesco discusses their new story collection, TRANSMUTATION.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sayantani Dasgupta
“I wanted to write a story that doesn’t shy away from the problems but one that’s also hopeful.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Poor People Disappear
Nothing is not right. There is no indication there has ever been a house.
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Writing toward Meaning: A Conversation with Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan discusses her new story collection, IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.
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Illuminating the Darkness: Madeleine L’Engle’s The Moment of Tenderness
For anyone looking for some truth and tenderness amidst a still-trying time, look no further.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod
“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”
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Hell Is a Young Man: Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent
The brutality of frat culture, Nugent suggests, is a veneer that hardly masks its devotees’ miseries and insecurities.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Notes Toward the End of the World
At the beginning of the trip, we couldn’t wait to reach the end of the world.
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The Art of Striving to Convince: A Conversation with Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken discusses her new story collection, THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM.
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The Plague within a Plague: Ethel Rohan’s In the Event of Contact
Rohan is masterful at mining these triads for their palpable uneasiness and unavoidable suffering.
