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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #91: Meghan Lamb
Author Meghan Lamb‘s new novel, Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace, March 2017), is a book that cuts to the core of disturbance. In it, a woman is struck by an inexplicable and undiagnosable illness that...
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The Aura of Baby Einstein, the Child, the Toy
My daughter D swipes her finger across my phone. A face lights up; her head turns in. She asks to look at family pictures. She likes to take some of her own—mostly shots of the floor or ceiling....
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This Week in Short Fiction
This week, in a story by Akhil Sharma that will leave you devastated, an Indian woman in an arranged marriage wakes one day to discover that she loves her husband. “If You Sing Like That for Me,”...
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Misfits and Marriage: Talking with Taylor Larsen
I first met Taylor Larsen last summer, when Jill Di Donato invited us to read on a panel at Barnard called Women, Writing, & Intersectionality. Months later, when we met up for drinks at a cocktail...
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Mixed Feelings: Happy Wife, Happy Life
Dear Mixed Feelings, My thirteenth wedding anniversary was on July 31. I have to admit that I love my wife and I value my marriage, even more so now that we almost ended it one year ago, but I am still...
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Voices on Addiction: Keys
The house on Dolores Street was built in 1911. All the handles and levers and pulls and clasps in the house were period, even the locks, which were lovely, ornate, and original. The front door lock...
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I tried to read Anna Karenina. I can accomplish this one thing, I thought. I’ll give it a year, and at the end of that year I will be able to stand up and say I’d read Anna Karenina. I got to page...
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Finding the Finally: Alice Anderson Discusses Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away
It took five seconds for me to fall in love with Alice Anderson. When we met last year, I became captivated by her charm and hilarity. Plus, she has this magic, otherworldly quality that made me feel...
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Couple’s Vacation
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Emergency Lifeboats: 24 (12 on Each Side)
No. It’s my mother’s favorite word lately. Did they feed you? No. Are you happy here? No. Do you love me? No. It’s a Sunday at the tail end of fall. The autumn scents of pumpkin and cinnamon...
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What Appears to Be Fiction: A Conversation with Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss’s new novel Forest Dark is her first since her National Book Award finalist Great House, and the book manages to be both a departure from and also find new ways to consider the ideas and...
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Reinventing Motherhood and Re-Dreaming Reality: Talking with Ariel Gore
I was a twenty-something gadabout when I first read Hip Mama in the mid-1990s, with no intention of having a kid any time soon. Even without a direct connection to the subject matter, I was taken with...
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Everyone Loves the Pope
My lover became the Pope. It was the twenty-tens and the Catholic Church wanted to rebrand with Newport cigarettes and Hermes chiseled calves. My lover raised his hand and the Conclave blew the smooth,...
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Black Ops for Jesus
Every day after elementary school, my mother would pick me up and we’d drive home together. On the way, we’d often pass our neighbor, Ruby, aiming the nozzle of her gardening hose at the disordered...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Whole World Is Desert
My mother dragged me halfway around the world just to see a fucking desert. She had an affair she was stupid enough to confess to Dad, and then a complete mental breakdown and mid-life crisis when my...
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Heartbeat Detected
Human heartbeat detected. Welcome, human. * In the grocery store, we try to shop together, both of us armed with a black plastic basket. We weave through my produce section, stroll down his frozen...
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Homebodies: Kindly Use, Part 1
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TORCH: Over the Borderline
In the desert of Nogales, Arizona, two girls jump on a trampoline under the swell of limitless sky. The younger one is Mexican-American and the older one is white. The smaller girl’s feet push hard to...
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Writing the Truth: A Conversation with David Hicks
David Hicks’s novel White Plains is an accomplished and engrossing debut that spans more than fifteen years in the life of main character, Flynn Hawkins. We meet Flynn on the first day of his graduate...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Prescriptions
Two hours before closing, and I could tell that at least one of them would end up in my emergency room. I knew things. In high school, I predicted that my sister’s boyfriend would dump her for his...
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