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The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere
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The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds We publish new work five days a week
- The Kingdom of Happy Land: A Conversation with Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Rumpus: Throughout history, Black people in this country have been forced to leave the land in search of a better life or work It disrupts our legacy and our relationship to land
- On Snorting Human Remains - The Rumpus
One of my friends, Enzo, had just died, and he’d probably felt a similar way, invincible and lost
- Wrestling with Bears: A Conversation with Robert Ostrom - The Rumpus
Rumpus: There’s a lot of myth in here, biblical references, Greek and Indigenous mythology, and reportage In the section “A History of Bear Wrestling in the United States,” you pull directly from news clippings about bear wrestling and then go off on your own retelling
- Pawn or Perpetrator: Nussaibah Younis’s Fundamentally - The Rumpus
In her debut novel Fundamentally (Hachette UK, 2025), Nussaibah Younis ambitiously tackles one of the thorniest contemporary issues to land on the desks of policymakers and inspire the impassioned op-eds of many a columnist: what to do with so-called “ISIS brides ” Even more ambitious is her decision to opt for satire as a vehicle to explore the question The choice quickly reveals itself
- Chaos Seeps Into Order: A Conversation with Maria Reva - The Rumpus
Rumpus: Endling has these metafictional and also graphical and structural intrusions They strike me as a way to puncture the narrative, so it bleeds into the outside world
- Dear Sugar Archives - The Rumpus
Dear Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, revealed in 2012 as Cheryl Strayed, author of the bestselling memoir Wild —is the person thousands turned to for advice about writing, relationships, and so much more
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