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On Baby Fever

  • Krys Malcolm Belc
  • September 13, 2021
I want to ask Anna for a map of desirability. Where was I before, where was I pregnant, where am I now?
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Body of Nonsense

  • Sophie Amado
  • January 20, 2020
It is winter, and I’ve been thinking a lot about Samuel Beckett.
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  • Brandon Hicks
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How To, in Short

  • Brandon Hicks
  • May 20, 2018
"A collection of brief books by Brandon Hicks."
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  • Voices on Addiction

Voices on Addiction: Need and Smoke

  • Sonya Huber
  • March 26, 2018
Need had carved out specific contours in my personality, and then it returned like a curse to fit in those spaces.
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The Summer of Lana Del Rey

  • Melissa Batchelor Warnke
  • July 10, 2017
Three summers ago, I did nothing but drive around Middlebury, Vermont, blasting Lana Del Rey and chain-smoking cigarettes. It was—and I will be dramatic, because that is how it felt—an…
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Weekly Geekery

  • Julia Ostmann
  • January 24, 2017
Writers gonna smoke (smoke, smoke, smoke, smoke). Find a Swedish latte papa to father your kids, says science. Fiction loves it some talking trees.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ladies Lazarus

  • Piper Daniels
  • December 11, 2016
For Mother, two worlds—earth we inhabit together, then the hot, heavenly body of euphoria and speed. Often, Mother exists in the tear between these worlds, belonging nowhere, to no one.
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Boyfriends: Achilles

  • Shelagh Power-Chopra and Kara Jansson
  • May 27, 2014
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Russifying the Rumpus

  • Pat Johnson
  • January 18, 2013
Aaron Gilbreath’s essay on smoking was recently translated into Russian by InsoSmI.ru, an organization in Russia that translates news, blogs, and essays from English into Russian. We think it’s pretty…
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The Thinking Man’s Filter

  • Aaron Gilbreath
  • December 6, 2012
Smoking again sounds like a good idea. I quit one November – twelve dry months following five years of intense puffing. The break was insightful, curative even, which was why…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

  • Seth Fischer
  • February 14, 2010
Happy sexin’ day, everyone! This isn’t my favorite holiday, so I’m gonna let the Book Bench do all the talkin’ about it with these Dear John letters and some blogging on emails…
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