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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • September 22, 2021
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Tracing the Wolf

  • Maggie Levantovskaya
  • September 16, 2021
To brand myself with something I feared and sought to subdue seemed like a reclamation.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos

  • ire’ne lara silva
  • February 10, 2021
It’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
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How to Name Dead Babies

  • Susanna Childress
  • June 17, 2019
Let’s not pretend first means there’s a good place to start.
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Drawing in Circles

  • Anna Kahn
  • May 16, 2019
Wondering is exhausting.
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Living, Breathing Art: A Conversation with Bradley Silver

  • Morgan English
  • January 4, 2019
Tattoo artist Bradley Silver discusses the political intersection of body art and street art, and more.
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How We Cycle through Our Lives: Talking with Chelsey Clammer

  • Jen Palmares Meadows
  • December 8, 2017
Chelsey Clammer discusses her new essay collection, Circadian, her writing process, and the body as text.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #94: David Burr Gerrard

  • Ryan Sartor
  • July 27, 2017
David Burr Gerrard’s new novel The Epiphany Machine is one of the more ambitious books you’ll read this year, centering on a device that can reveal the epiphany of your…
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • November 23, 2016
Isaac Fitzgerald and Wendy MacNaughton on their new book Knives & Ink, cooking with pigs' heads, and long-distance collaboration.
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Written in Ink

  • Katie O'Brien
  • August 12, 2016
In a powerful essay at The Establishment, Evelyn Deshane discusses rejecting the medical narrative around transitioning, and how tattoos allowed them to reclaim their own body: When the physicality of my…
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The Next Bukowski of Tattooing?

  • David Breithaupt
  • August 9, 2016
Jonathan Shaw is a writer and tattoo artist who has inked just about everybody. He’s at the top of his game. Check out this podcast and find out more.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Do You Have a Beau?

  • Ariel Gore
  • July 3, 2016
Shame is the haunting that’s hardest to scrub away.
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