Notable Online: 8/2–8/8
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...moreWe share our thirty most-read pieces of 2019!
...moreThe Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2019!
...moreTaffy Brodesser-Akner discusses her debut novel, FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE.
...moreLiterary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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...moreA weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
...moreAfter about two years of writing essays, I learned about something I will hereby in these pages name the Passive-Aggressive Writer’s Conundrum: People, particularly non-writers, are an optimistic, delusional bunch. If you mention people in an unflattering way without naming them, they will never recognize themselves in your story— even if you name actual details […]
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