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David Rompf

@davidrompf.bsky.social
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Writer. The New Yorker, New York Times, Harvard Review, Los Angeles Times, The Common, and elsewhere. New Yorker, Californian, and Yooper (Ask me what that is!) DavidRompf.com

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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Farewell to the incomparable Annie Dillard. (Free link to her now-classic masterpiece, "Total Eclipse") cyberspacerobinson.org/courses/cw1/... #essay #writers
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Farewell, Yoyoi Kusama.
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
An interview with me about my essay, “Pain Points.” coloradoreview.colostate.edu/2026/07/a-co...
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A Conversation with David Rompf - Center for Literary Publishing | Colorado State University
Editorial Assistant Will Brooks talks with David Rompf about his essay, “Pain Points,” featured in the Summer 2026 issue of Colorado Review. David Rompf has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York...
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A sunrise hot air balloon ride over Teotihuacan. Here, the Pyramid of the Moon.
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
An essay about pain: coloradoreview.colostate.edu/features/pai...
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Pain Points - Center for Literary Publishing
About the Feature Author: David RompfPublished: Summer 2026 Pain Points Photo by Daniel Lanner on Unsplash 1. The First Noble Truth of Buddhism declares that pain and suffering exist for everyone, eve...
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Arresting journalists who are peacefully covering a protest is a dangerous assault on democracy. (Free gift article) www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Minnesota Live Updates: Don Lemon Is Among Several More Arrested Over Church Protest
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Leadership, truth, clarity….
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is an excellent new video analysis by the New York Times of the ICE shooting of Renee Good. (Free gift article.) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
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Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Some SNAP facts: 4 of every 5 U.S. counties with increases in the percentage of households receiving benefits since 2010 are in places that voted for Donald Trump in 2020. 37% of recipients are white; 26% African-American. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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A Closer Look at Who Benefits from SNAP: State-by-State Fact Sheets
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps) is the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, reaching some 41 million people nationwide in 2024. These...
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Honored to have an essay in the very fine Slag Glass City. @slagglasscity.bsky.social #slagglasscity
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago.You are neither wanted here nor needed here.Your remarks about this effort over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties and are not fit for the auspicious office you occupy." - JB Pritzker www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eemt...
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'Do not come to Chicago': Ill. Gov. Pritzker warns Trump over threats of deploying National Guard
YouTube video by MSNBC
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Art is necessary for democracy. “The artist forges himself to resist his time’s tyrannies. True artists refuse to serve injustice and lies.” - Albert Camus @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social #Art
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
When your flight is delayed at SFO, you go to a drag show, of course. #sanfrancisco #pride
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hands Off - Day of Action in New York City. The power of a peaceful protest!
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“I’m going to ask you again. Where were you when you joined the Signal chat and why were you there?”
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Bravo to Costco for standing up to anti-DEI efforts! I used to be critical of Costco for silly reasons but not any longer. More companies need to show this resolve… www.cnn.com/2024/12/27/b...
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Costco is pushing back — hard — against the anti-DEI movement. It’s getting noticed | CNN Business
Walmart, John Deere, Tractor Supply and other companies are changing or walking away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in response to right-wing pressure. But Costco believes DEI imp...
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Recommended reading: A timely (and timeless!) analysis of the dangerous allure of ignorance. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...
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Opinion | The Surprising Allure of Ignorance
We want to know, but we also want not to know, sometimes fiercely so.
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Grateful for the world’s farmworkers, who are often forgotten and invisible amid the abundances. Happy Thanksgiving.
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a cornucopia full of fruits and vegetables with the words happy written on the bottom
ALT: a cornucopia full of fruits and vegetables with the words happy written on the bottom
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The best nonfiction book FOR 2024 was published in 1960: “The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich,” by William Shirer. The political and character parallels are spine-chilling. Santayana’s prophetic admonition about forgetting the past sounds a new alarm on every page. #books
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Samantha Harvey’s novel, “Orbital,” which won the 2024 Booker Prize, is possibly the most beautifully written book of the last 10 years. It’s a love letter to earth, to the cosmos, and to humanity. #books thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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Samantha Harvey | The Booker Prizes
Winner of the Booker Prize 2024 for Orbital. Samantha Harvey lives in the UK and is a tutor on the MA course in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A peaceful, moving protest: Maori members of New Zealand's parliament perform a "haka" to protest a bill that would reinterpret a treaty between Britain and the indigenous people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N__O...
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Māori MPs perform haka and disrupt NZ parliament debate on treaty rights changes
YouTube video by Guardian News
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"The Saturday Shift": a piece about my brief, bewildering life as a waiter in England. (I set the dining room on fire, and then this happened....) www.pangyrus.com/zest/the-sat...
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The Saturday Shift | Pangyrus
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
"King of Pawns," my short story about a pawn broker, a mysterious mountain man, and two wolves: readwildness.com/33/rompf-king
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King of Pawns, by David Rompf | wildnesswildness
Wildness is an online literary and arts journal.
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A controversial plan to build a spaceport on the shores of Lake Superior: www.newyorker.com/news/us-jour...
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The Plan to Make Michigan the Next Space State
Residents are up in arms about a proposed spaceport project, the first of its kind in the Midwest, which would involve launching rockets near the shoreline of Lake Superior.
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
"When Tarzan Met Leonardo," an essay about Guy Davenport, in Harvard Review: www.harvardreview.org/content/a-le...
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When Tarzan Met Leonardo
In the midst of the Great Depression, the ten-year-old son of an Express Railway agent hunkered down in his modest family abode in Anderson, South Carolina, to read the Tarzan novels. Edgar Rice Burro...
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
"Once More To The Pond," my essay about reading Thoreau's "Walden" four times in different places. www.harvardreview.org/content/once...
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Once More to the Pond
In college I had an English professor who revealed her habit of reading Paradise Lost at least once every year. “I’ve now read it fifty times,” she said with manifest pride and amazement in marking he...
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David Rompf @davidrompf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
"Ancient Greek On The Grass," in The New Yorker: A brilliant actor performs a one-man Odyssey in Ancient Greek. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Ancient Greek on the Grass
Armed with a Cyclops eye and a watermelon, Joseph Medeiros performed a one-man Odyssey at dawn in East River Park.
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