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Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Intimate Characters: Talking with Laura Bogart Tabitha BlankenbillerJuly 31, 2020 Laura Bogart discusses her debut novel, DON’T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #226: Benjamin Nugent Maria AndersonJuly 16, 2020 “I’m interested in beautiful events that are wrong.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned M Jaime ZuckermanJuly 10, 2020 In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.Read
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Read Politics Rumpus Original Arrest Record Desiree CooperJune 22, 2020 A Black boy, no matter how young, was not a child. He was a future criminal.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Violence and Human Reality: Talking with Szczepan Twardoch Sean Gasper ByeJune 17, 2020 Szczepan Twardoch discusses his novel, THE KING OF WARSAW.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original C-Beams Glittering in the Dark: A Conversation with Cooper Lee Bombardier Samantha AllenMay 22, 2020 Cooper Lee Bombardier discusses his first book, PASS WITH CARE: MEMOIRS.Read
Read Rumpus Original Bald-headed Muthaf*cker Tahirah Alexander GreenMay 19, 2020 Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews On Loss of Land and Loss of Girlhood: Taneum Bambrick’s Vantage Aria AberMay 1, 2020 Girlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Opening New Doors and Windows: Talking with Daniel Chacón ire’ne lara silvaApril 10, 2020 Daniel Chacón discusses his new collection, KAFKA IN A SKIRT: STORIES FROM THE WALL®.Read
Read Rumpus Original Father Time Is Undefeated Chris AmesFebruary 25, 2020 It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.Read