Rumpus Original Fiction: Black Talk
She wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
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Posts Tagged: Washington DC
Divestment
Secrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: La Yegüita
The hit below the belt worked. A jab like that was the quickest way to protect one’s denial.
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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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Small Breeds
How do people function without the false promises of pressure?
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Man from Washington
They had, together, built something that, while not without its faults, was strong.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: How to Sleep-Train Your Lawmakers
This time? This time we decided to sleep-train the baby.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: No Justice, No Tacos
Civility only works on the civil. Decorum is for the deserving.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #139: Debra Jo Immergut
“If the door doesn’t open, it’s okay to walk away, give your poor head a rest. And try again later.”
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
A weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
...moreThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Dispatches from the Swamp: The Babble in the Bubble
To the extent that America—that great big word that makes us all so anxious—exists at all, it exists as a vast and noisy sheet of bubble wrap.
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A weekly roundup of indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Dispatches from the Swamp: To the Bureaucrats, with Love
About 173,000 people work for federal agencies in this Washington DC, and let’s be absolutely clear from the get-go: the mood among them is grim.
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The Lens Magnifies, the Mirror Reflects: What Photos from the Race War Show Us about Ourselves
[Still photos] grab what otherwise might feel too foreign to understand.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: Storm’s Coming
It was as if I could hear the whole country breathing softly, softly, together. Finally, the sleepless eye had closed.
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Dispatches from the Swamp: The Absolute Necessity of Softball
And then one guy on his team yells, “You have to touch the bases, buddy! This is still America!” That is all it takes. For one guy on the other side to put country over party.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Brendan Canty’s Vintage Drums
I just remember when I first started playing that set how beautiful and perfect it was. Having a real instrument really made a difference. I started really playing!
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Dispatches from the Swamp: I Watched the Comey Hearings in a DC Bar with a Face Full of Novocaine
When you live in a political football it’s hard to ignore getting kicked.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ian Svenonius’s “Principles of Modernism”
[T]he most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a mindset—or maybe it’s an ideology.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 7): “Facing It”
There should be no forgetting, much less forgiveness, of what happened during the Vietnam War.
...moreThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Bookstore sales continue to grow. In the wake of the presidential election, bookstores are becoming more than just shops and are serving their communities as impromptu community centers. More independent bookstores are becoming publishers. Bushwick Brooklyn’s Molasses Books has started fundraising for good causes following Trump’s election. Bridgeside Books in Waterbury is trying to make Black […]
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Natural Born Drivers
He only knew that the Blazer, like the green card, was something he wanted my brother and me to have, so that we knew we deserved things, things like America.
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FUNNY WOMEN #145: The Mother of All Jobs
Why do you think God gave you those narrow hips, if not for wearing blue suit pants?
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Thao Nguyen’s Release
The thing I want to talk about is something I’m not in possession of anymore, but of all the things I’ve lost it’s the thing I think about the most.
...moreThe Rumpus Interview with Paula Whyman
Paula Whyman discusses her debut collection You May See a Stranger, discovering truth in fiction, and how memory interferes with good storytelling.
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