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From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Any Good Wife

  • Ada Zhang
  • April 10, 2023
Airong’s voice was stern, matter-of-fact. “I’m pregnant.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: All Good Things Come to an End

  • Colleen Mayo
  • August 15, 2018
I didn’t feel bad about lying because the truth would have hurt her.
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TORCH: Over the Borderline

  • Harmony Hazard
  • October 19, 2017
I'm writing about the border through the eyes of children because the border is a problem of the imagination.
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Ghostly Woman

  • Zoë Bossiere
  • May 15, 2017
I had never lived in a real haunted house. I didn’t know what any of the rules were. Could her presence cause physical harm?
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The Rumpus Interview with Robin MacArthur

  • Jennifer Bowen
  • September 2, 2016
Robin MacArthur discusses her debut story collection Half Wild, life in rural Vermont, and how narrative—and fiction—is key to reaching across what divides us.
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The Rumpus Interview with Brian Blanchfield

  • Ryan Krull
  • June 15, 2016
Poet and writer Brian Blanchfield talks about his essay collection Proxies, touring in support of a prose collection versus a poetry collection, and frottage.
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Breaking and Burning

  • Kathleen Buckley
  • May 16, 2016
They pin him down and I stick him. I am relentless. This disease is relentless. And I am so pissed off.
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The Rumpus Interview with Deborah Reed

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • September 25, 2015
Author Deborah Reed discusses her latest novel, Olivay, the necessity of fire, Los Angeles anxiety, and how she found fulfillment at the edge of the American West.
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Soccer to the Rescue?

  • Lisa Dusenbery
  • February 27, 2012
At The Atlantic, Rumpus contributor Chris Feliciano Arnold looks at efforts to draw Major League Soccer to Tucson, Arizona and wonders whether building a community around the game can be…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #28: Can You Hear Me Crying?

  • Rick Moody
  • January 18, 2011
It’s hard not to think a lot about Tucson lately, a place where I have spent a lot of time in the last five years, and which I have written…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #5: Heliotropism

  • Rick Moody
  • January 29, 2009
I love the city of Tucson, Arizona, because I like places that have run out of luck, and I think running out of luck makes for good music. Running out…
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