Washington DC
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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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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!
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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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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.
