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That Monster Is Right There: Talking with Colin Winnette
Colin Winnette, at thirty-three, has written six books, and his latest is the gothic horror novel, The Job of the Wasp. Winnette’s catalog up to now is wildly varied. There’s a Western, a thriller,...
View ArticleENOUGH: Survival Is What Comes Afterward
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
View ArticleENOUGH: The Art of the Cover Up
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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Why I Chose Shara Lessley’s The Explosive Expert’s Wife for the Rumpus Poetry...
Ask anyone who grew up in an area that’s a tourist attraction—there are few things more annoying than a person visits and then claims to understand it as well as or better than a native. This is...
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Voices on Addiction: What We Forget, What We Remember
I don’t remember the types of guns he had lining the windows. The way he would pace, back and forth inside his house, during days and nights that must have merged into one murky color. At that point,...
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By Accident and On Purpose: A Conversation with Leesa Cross-Smith
Leesa Cross-Smith’s story of Evangeline, a classically trained ballet instructor, her ill-fated cop husband, Eamon, and his best friend, Dalton, was almost twenty years in the making. And yet, her...
View ArticleThe Last Poem I Loved: “Seniors” by D. Nurkse
Recently, after working in various industries over the course of several years, I accepted a job as a high school art teacher. In August, prior to the first day of school, I found myself thinking of D....
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The Color of Discipline
My daughter is leaving marks—nicks from her fingernails, impressions from her teeth—across my body. She bites my leg hard through my jeans while I’m cooking because I can’t pick her up just then. She...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Justin Phillip Reed
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Justin Phillip Reed about his debut collection, Indecency, why he loves struggling with connotation, and the way “not responsible” can morph into “irresponsible.”...
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The Abattoir
On Sunday, it’s announced at church that we are going to kill a pig. I’m five years old, and I have never thought to kill an animal before. It was an ancient Hmong custom from China: the pig slaughter...
View ArticleLook at How the Bullets Have Missed
It is difficult to write a great antagonist. To achieve balance, one would need to be both powerful enough to pose a considerable threat to our heroes, as well as relatable enough to make us doubt if...
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This Future Is Here: Talking with Tom McAllister
If dystopia is a hop skip and a jump away from our present-day reality, Tom McAllister’s novel How to Be Safe imagines it. The world of the novel is both absurd and deeply real—one of crime,...
View ArticleCelebrating Eid in Trump’s America
Ramadhan is coming to an end and for the first time I find myself in an indulgent mood towards the inevitable squabbles within the global Muslim community on moon sighting. Will Eid, the holy day that...
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All the Reasons I Texted My Rapist
The night I was raped, I had no obvious reason to feel unsafe. I was meeting an old friend at a Williamsburg bar not far from my apartment. He and I had known each other for years. We shared an...
View ArticleENOUGH: They Knew How to Take What They Wanted
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The Violence of Women: Talking with Amber Tamblyn
Amber Tamblyn’s new book Any Man imagines a vicious upside down world, where men are preyed upon by a female serial rapist. But the book transcends the gimmick of the experiment and digs deeper into...
View ArticleA Community of the People: Tommy Orange’s There There
Tommy Orange’s debut novel There There is grounded in place, specifically Oakland, California. Early on, Dene Oxendene, one of Orange’s dozen characters, encounters a smug outsider who inaccurately...
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A Real Good Guy
Everyone owned a gun. Or at least, there were many people who did. We lived in Arizona after all. But I didn’t think about people carrying guns around, and it certainly wasn’t on my mind that morning....
View ArticleENOUGH: Rescue Me
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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Transgressing Familiarity: Talking with Thomas Page McBee
Thomas Page McBee’s new memoir, Amateur, is a powerful exploration of the costs of toxic masculinity and the joys of an authentic life. It is also a classic fight story. Superbly written and keenly...
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