Nightmares Before Christmas
No one is coming to save us but ourselves.
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Posts Tagged: Tabitha Blankenbiller
What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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Intimate Characters: Talking with Laura Bogart
Laura Bogart discusses her debut novel, DON’T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.
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A Badass Just Because: Talking with Steph Post
Steph Post discusses her new novel, MIRACULUM.
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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Next Letter in the Mail: Naomi J. Williams
Don’t miss Naomi J. Williams’s Letter in the Mail!
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Get Your Signed Copy of Tabitha Blankenbiller’s Eats of Eden Today!
Now through 4/30, get a signed copy of EATS OF EDEN by Tabitha Blankenbiller!
...moreWhat We’re Reading in May!
Find out what The Rumpus Book Club is reading in May!
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Next Letter in the Mail: Tabitha Blankenbiller (& Signed Book Giveaway!)
Our next Letter in the Mail is from Tabitha Blankenbiller, plus get a signed copy of EATS OF EDEN!
...moreNotable Portland: 3/29–4/4
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2018
A selection of AWP 2018 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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What to Read When You’re Hungry
Each [cookbook] is a ticket into an immersive opportunity for new dishes, new ingredients, new love.
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The Earth Recycles All of Us: Talking with Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Micheline Aharonian Marcom discusses her novel, The Brick House, female sexuality in literature, and transcendence through dreaming.
...moreThis Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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The Rumpus Top 15 of 2017
We share our fifteen most-read pieces of 2017!
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What to Read When 2018 Is Just Around the Corner
While we can’t promise that 2018 won’t find us facing more political upheaval, we can assure you that there will be great literature to offer moments of escape and inspiration.
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ENOUGH: America’s Wholly Visible Underbelly
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreNotable Portland: 11/9–11/15
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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I Choose My Pearls: On Feminism, Fashion, and Disneyland
Women don’t need laws to repress their fashion, comfort, identity, or preference. Our society’s deft ability to shame does all the heavy lifting.
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The Rumpus Review of Ghostbusters
An agenda can only exist when there is a contingent opposing it. We only push for representation when so many hours and characters of wrath are poured into keeping us out.
...moreBook Club Misogyny
For Electric Literature, Tabitha Blankenbiller offers a critique of the recent New York Times article about “Man Book Clubs,” and analyzes how gendered book covers influence readers’ choices and experience: We can debate the levels of hubris and/or drunkenness in the NYT editorial room all we want, but what we have is an article claiming real estate and […]
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The Slow Fall of the Hot Heroine
If nothing else, it’s the opinion of other women that encroaches on mine. Resemblances spark my joy; differences become character flaws.
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The Rumpus Interview with Deborah Reed
Author Deborah Reed discusses her latest novel, Olivay, the necessity of fire, Los Angeles anxiety, and how she found fulfillment at the edge of the American West.
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Grant Snider provides some (mostly) encouraging words in “One Page At A Time.” Prompted by author Colleen McCullough’s shallow-minded obituary in the Guardian, Tabitha Blankenbiller uses the Saturday Essay for introspection. The prevailing views of women’s bodies come under the microscope when Blankenbiller reflects on her experience in a church support group for women trying […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Fat Girl’s Benediction
Why couldn’t I accept my body for what it wanted to be? It’s what I harped on the rest of the world to do.
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