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Diner Boys

  • Wren Awry
  • September 26, 2019
But then, full of longing to be someone other than I was, his work seemed perfect.
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Angry Reminders: Lee Ann Roripaugh’s Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey
  • August 23, 2019
Human beings like to make myths out of things we don’t understand.
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Moving Targets

  • Allie Marini
  • March 20, 2018
Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • June 27, 2017
Are great bookstores just good capitalism? People are more concerned with being fat than with eating disorders, if we go by the number of books in each respective section at…
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The Dark Heart of America: On David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon

  • Lyz Lenz
  • April 18, 2017
David Grann's new book Killers of the Flower Moon explores the 1920s murders of the Osage tribe, the making of the FBI, and is a reminder of the all too recent history of betrayals that comprise America’s dark heart.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Allison Crutchfield’s Sewing Machine

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • February 16, 2017
When I’m away touring, my clothes are my connection to home, my way of feeling myself.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Everything We Ever Needed

  • Meghan O'Dea
  • January 21, 2017
I tried to forget again that I once meant to leave, that on a few occasions I had actually felt transported by love.
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Touring Trump’s America on Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad

  • Rajeev Balasubramanyam
  • November 22, 2016
Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award on Wednesday night. In his acceptance speech he told us, “We’re happy in here; outside is the blasted hellhole wasteland…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: There Are No Good Muslims

  • J. Kasper Kramer
  • June 26, 2016
I say I am Catholic because it is easier than telling the truth.
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Behind Trees: Hiding and Finding Yourself in The Sims

  • Joe Wadlington
  • April 11, 2016
As I became increasingly jealous of the boys, I got angrier. This was complex because I spent the days worshipping them.
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American Ambiguity

  • Afsheen Farhadi
  • February 15, 2016
My racial awareness, perhaps even my awareness of myself as a person, self-consciousness, is a three-pronged paradox of shame, pride, and indifference.
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Beth Bachmann

  • Dave Roderick
  • January 16, 2015
In Episode 8 of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, poet Beth Bachmann chats about her new collection, Do Not Rise, Dolly Parton, and the demands of lyric poetry.
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