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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Amy Benson
Amy Benson’s second book of nonfiction, Seven Years to Zero (Dzanc, May 2017) follows a couple’s move from the suburbs into New York City, and their foray into the landscape of parenthood. Benson’s...
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For Thomas Jefferson, to say nothing of his political ancestor Edmund Burke, the order of mankind is rural and agricultural. Agrarianism, the argument goes, is what keeps citizens in harmony with one...
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Lisa Factora-Borchers
Last year, I heard through the social media grapevine that the anthology Lisa Factora-Borchers had edited, Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence (AK Press, 2014), was going into a...
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What to Read When You Want to Understand Middle America
Trump was in Iowa this week holding yet another rally. The cheers and opposing jeers were just one more example that there are distinctly opposing narratives in this nation, and the dissonance is...
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The Election and the Ash Borer
We saw the white spray paint Xs months ago, marking the reptilian bark of ash trees across the city. The Xs signified which trees had become infected with the Emerald Ash Borer. The borer is a cancer...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erika L. Sánchez
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Erika L. Sánchez about her new collection Lessons on Expulsion, pushing back against sexism and misogyny, being a troublemaker, and donkeys. This is an edited...
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Voices on Addiction: The Honeybee
It was no place like home, but it was a place for families. They sat on metal benches in the processing room, waiting for their loved ones, hoping the next face would be the one they’d longed to see....
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Basura
At 7 a.m. on Easter morning I have only just remembered that I have not yet cleared the yard of trash—an important task considering that hunting for colored eggs among the strips of white Walmart bags...
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Zola Jesus’s Natural World
When I was young my parents built a house, almost from the ground up, on two hundred acres of woods in Northern Wisconsin. From building the house to living there I spent all my time on the land...
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Endless Preparation: Apples and Women’s Work
To pick the best apples, I have to stand on the back seat of the four-wheeler and stretch the claw-arm of the apple picker up to the highest branches. The apple picker is a wooden rod, and at the very...
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Messy and Complicated and Real: Talking with Laura Pritchett
In the 70s and 80s, as Colorado writer Laura Pritchett was growing up on the family ranch, that life was taking a shortcut to anachronism. The farm crisis of the 80s decimated the number of families...
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It’s All about Positionality: Talking with Kayleb Rae Candrilli
Leaving home is an inherently complex act, one that is often seen as an inevitable rite of passage and transition toward true independence. It is never as simple as driving away. Particularly when that...
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Swinging Modern Sounds #86: Transcendentalism!
Avid radio listeners of the tri-state area will recollect that at one point WNYC, the NPR-affiliated public radio station of New York City was noteworthy for its commitment to arts-related programming....
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Salt of the Earth: A Conversation with John Lingan
Patsy Cline, the legendary country singer, haunts John Lingan’s new book, Homeplace: A Southern Town, a Country Legend, and the Last Days of a Mountaintop Honky-Tonk. The arc of the narrative follows...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Love Is That?
Hollis Whittle figured the boy had been dead at least a day when he found him floating face-up in the quarry pond. He was bloated; his eyes were open; his skin was already a pallid greenish gray. He...
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Off the Interstate, into Real Experience: Talking with Erica Trabold
In her creative work, on paper, and in person, Erica Trabold is an intelligent, deep, encompassing, and attentive presence. She has the precise cutting tools to write exacting and beautiful essays....
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R.I.P.: Baby Bird
Someone once said something to me about the importance of a child experiencing the death of an animal. Give a boy a dog so he can learn about loss. Gift a girl a pet so she learns how to let go. Yet,...
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Frannie The Farm Girl
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #180: De’Shawn Charles Winslow
In West Mills, the debut novel from De’Shawn Charles Winslow, follows the life of Azalea “Knot” Centre—a brazen, eccentric resident of the small, rural town of West Mills in North Carolina—over the...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #188: T Fleischmann
Resistance is a beating heart throughout Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through, T Fleischmann’s new book-length essay. Both narrator and narrative(s), and the mapping of time through relationships to...
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