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Regarding the Boy
The boy is from a drug town, a rust belt town. It’s a violent town. Sometimes this violence looks like cops parked in front of the boy’s high school, but more often means city blocks with more...
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Narrowly Avoiding the Spotlight
Late on this year’s Oscar Sunday, the award ceremony concluded with the Academy getting something right: Spotlight was awarded Best Picture. Spotlight is well-acted across the board and its story (for...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Milwaukee. Rust. A Baby.
This is a love story. They don’t know when my water broke. Did it break, they ask me. How can water break? Is my smooth surface ripped in half as if a fish has breached to breathe the air its not meant...
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Jaimee Wriston Colbert’s linked-story collection, Wild Things, takes William Wordsworth’s directive seriously: “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” Colbert’s sensibilities hit the page...
View ArticleThe Friends of Dorothy Have Something to Say to Kansas
We’re not only not in Kansas anymore, we’re not in any familiar state once a wicked truth-twister starts pushing the buttons and pulling the levers. When our house lands with a loud crash after a...
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