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Rumpus Original Fiction: Straw House

  • Becky Mandelbaum
  • May 10, 2017
“It’s not healthy, how you live. People aren’t meant to sleep all day. We need the sun. We’re meant to live in the sun.”
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Artists Petition Against Streaming Enablers

  • Liz Wood
  • June 24, 2016
A long list of known and respected musicians from a wide variety of genres have signed a petition against the systemic enabling of illegal streaming provided by entities such as…
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  • Allyson McCabe
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Laura Ballance’s Ghost Stories

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • June 9, 2016
There is one story that my mother used to tell me often, which has become in some ways a symbol of my childhood.
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Song of the Day: “Let Me Be Mine”

  • Max Gray
  • September 18, 2014
It’s hard to imagine rocking out for more than twenty years, without much of a respite, but that is exactly what Spoon have done. The difficult-to-label rock group that formed…
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Utensils

  • Monica Drake
  • September 12, 2013
So now it’s 2013 and a souvenir of that ’70s divorce-era design resides in the dark, shared bed of a slim drawer in our kitchen, in the house of my first and only marriage.
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