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the Year of Magical Thinking

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What to Read When You Want to Tread through Love’s Complications

  • Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
  • April 24, 2020
Shuly Xóchitl Cawood shares a reading list to celebrate A SMALL THING TO WANT.
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Nothing Gets Solved: Talking with Kevin Nguyen

  • Janet Frishberg
  • April 22, 2020
Kevin Nguyen discusses his debut novel, NEW WAVES.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky

  • Grace Talusan
  • April 16, 2020
“I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”
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What to Read When You’re Grieving

  • Marisa Bardach Ramel
  • July 5, 2019
Marisa Bardach Ramel shares a reading list to celebrate her debut memoir, THE GOODBYE DIARIES.
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What to Read When You’re Coming of [Old] Age

  • Madeleine May Kunin
  • January 25, 2019
Governor Madeleine Kunin shares a list of books to celebrate her new memoir, COMING OF AGE.
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What to Read When You Want to Reclaim Your Time

  • The Rumpus
  • July 6, 2018
Books that center us and offer new perspectives.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Three Excerpts from AFTERWORDS

  • The Rumpus
  • January 2, 2018
Three exclusive excerpts from …AFTERWORDS, a new series of distinctive commentaries on great works of contemporary literature from our friends at Fiction Advocate!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #63: Patrick Madden

  • Caleb Powell
  • December 22, 2016
Patrick Madden teaches writing at Brigham Young University and is the author of the essay collection Quotidiana. His essays frequently appear in literary magazines and have been featured in The Best…
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Clothing and Loss

  • Jake Slovis
  • January 20, 2015
In the fashion world, understanding the zeitgeist is a way of orienting oneself within a temporal framework. And it’s in this way that style is woven so memorably through Didion’s…
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Literary Fashionables: The Junky and The New Journalist

  • Caitlin Colford
  • February 17, 2010
Today’s two Literary Fashionables traveled in distinct social settings at the time of their rise to literary fame. One moved with exiles, hustlers and runaways in Paris, Mexico and Tangier…
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