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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 30m
"He had been a caretaker since he was barely old enough to be called a man, in the middle of a genocide that the world has largely forgotten." From "What We Are Allowed to Give," new nonfiction by Shaniyat Turani. ➡️ buff.ly/H7nA66y
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"Why not / let the wheels come off the fucking thing, / laugh as the sun again puts on a brave face / this morning, fuming its doomed eternity?" From "Not an Answer," one of two new poems by Jake Onyett. ➡️ buff.ly/LTx6SNF
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 04/10/2026
"If older brains measure / time in memories / let’s relive every moment, / sitting in the dark, sharing / a box of nonpareils / at the arthouse theater" From "Won’t You Stream Every Movie on the Criterion Channel with Me," new poetry by @tgnarts.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/iGvXvbR
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 04/10/2026
"I don’t think Kahlo’s paintings gesture toward that ending, and I don’t think mine should either." What the Body Keeps: On Frida Kahlo and the Grammar of Pain by Leslie Williams. ➡️ buff.ly/mthswOW
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 03/10/2026
In this month's book design examination with Zachary Petit, designer Claire Sullivan discusses her process and the cover for Our Cut of Salt by @deenahelm.bsky.social (@tornightfire.bsky.social), showcasing how there’s so much more to a jacket than first meets the eye. ➡️: buff.ly/sXiR2Cu
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 03/10/2026
Artist Diana Weymar is back this month with another hand-embroidered quote from the Rumpus archives. On May 31, 2019, The Rumpus highlighted Dorothy Roberts and this foundational text in a curated reading list issue titled “What to Read When Women’s Bodies Are Under Attack.” ➡️ buff.ly/VGfJy0o
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 03/10/2026
"You’re following so-and-so around all the time and copying everything she does—but she’s not your friend. Why are you crying? You’re so sensitive…" Costumes & Purpose: Shelby Newsome reviews Jess Shannon's Cleaner (@scribnerbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/UoPqaIu
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 02/10/2026
"This poem wants to do too much / To mark the map of our lives together / To hold your face in its hands / Like a bear with its cub" From "To my son on leaving to work Alaska’s backcountry," one of two new poems by Peter Grandbois. ➡️ buff.ly/pjGvLgy
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 01/10/2026
"...they’re trying so hard to be good and that’s not recognized. It’s not glamorous to be good or sacrificial." Learned Wisdom: @tiffyo.bsky.social interviews @minjinlee.bsky.social about American Hagwon. ➡️ buff.ly/Gufm4bA
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 01/10/2026
"...a promise of little joys saved up like loose change over the winter." In "Wattle Season," comic artist Benedicte O’Leary Rutherford examines the promise of budding wattle trees at the tail end of winter. ➡️ buff.ly/0MBVX5H
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 01/10/2026
"I needed to be somewhere quiet, to read, and to stitch myself back together..." In our newest culture essay, @elissaaltman.bsky.social shares her grief over losing her father and remembering their shared venture for relief from summer heat. ➡️ buff.ly/drWVVsP
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 01/10/2026
The October installment of the relaunch The Rumpus Book Club will be on October 26th at 7pm ET. Host @debbiemillman.bsky.social will be speaking with New York Times best-selling author @minjinlee.bsky.social about her brand new book American Hagwon. Reserve your spot now at buff.ly/Ccx8JqW
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 30/09/2026
"...how much can I play with these stories?" Bodega as a Bridge to Storytelling: Christine Kandic Torres (@ckandictorres.bsky.social) interviews @amariscastillo.bsky.social about Bodega Stories (@floridapress.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/IQYVC8c
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 30/09/2026
"The longer she stayed in the water, the better the numbness felt. She dipped her head back. How easy it would be to slip in just a little bit further." From "Falling Scales," new fiction by Genevieve Bentz. ➡️ buff.ly/2GBVDw9
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 29/09/2026
"...these three conversations with Ursula, our making of them into a book, and its arrival into the world, changed the trajectory of my life." @davidnaimon.bsky.social discusses with @anushreenande.bsky.social the transformative impact of his work with Ursula K. Le Guin. ➡️ buff.ly/dNW5i8b
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 28/09/2026
"We are protected as we photosynthesize. We are solar powered with balanced solar plexuses. Our throat chakras unblock. We read poetry aloud as people weep." Pass on the magic by reading and sharing "Overnight Success," a new short story by Lucy Rees. ➡️ buff.ly/tarQBME
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 28/09/2026
"I want to focus on one single perverse gift the US empire has offered its southern neighbor: the war on drugs." From "The Mexican Trojan Horse," a new culture essay by Oswaldo Zavala about just one of the U.S.'s many Trojan Horses. ➡️ buff.ly/146cYll
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 28/09/2026
"My father / smiles when he’s coated / in oil. Cars remind him / there’s always something / to be fixed." From "Like My Father," new poetry by Lucy Murrell. 🚘️ buff.ly/OZt4WvK
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 26/09/2026
“What brings joy—and at what cost—can be frightening questions.” Party on in Alejandro Villa Vásquez's review of@kylecarrerolopez.bsky.social’s poetry collection Party Line (@graywolfpress.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/fwJsnWx
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 26/09/2026
"There is nothing clean or precise about scooping your own feces into tiny tubes. The stench, for one, is unbearable." Can love and medicine mix? Decide for yourself by reading Virginia Marshall's newest short story "Love and Medicine." buff.ly/mZCncze
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 26/09/2026
"How do we love art and each other in a way that allows us to survive?" Liz Button & @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social talk about his latest novel Hollywood, Ending (@duttonbooks.bsky.social) and the privacy we give up in order to participate in the social internet. buff.ly/c9fYqtn
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 25/09/2026
"I can only imagine what it’s like to be so clearly aware of your purpose." From "Dinner Party at the End of the World," new nonfiction by Matthew Hawkins-Santana about trying to have people over more often and becoming doom embodied. buff.ly/D3nY1cU
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 25/09/2026
"There’s also the exhilaration of discovering what is going to happen through the act of writing. Plotting feels too tidy to me. It takes away the mystery of the trajectory." Michael Costaris interviews Hernan Diaz about Ply (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/jkpLNqO
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 25/09/2026
🚨 IMPORTANT UPDATE - Due to weather and travel delays for our author, The Rumpus Book Club event w/ Emily Wilson has been RESCHEDULED for Sunday, Sept. 27 at 4 p.m. ET. There's still time to reserve your spot for this convo with @debbiemillman.bsky.social & @roxanegay.bsky.social! buff.ly/Xg7RpXM
Emily Wilson Book Club Event Rescheduled to Sunday, Sept. 27 at 4 pm ET.
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 25/09/2026
"Parks...knew all too well that the camera can present crises but is limited in its ability to prevent or eradicate them." A new culture essay is up by Leigh Raiford, examining Gordon Parks and the ethical and aesthetic approach the photographer took in his work. 📷️ buff.ly/kjI93JT
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 23/09/2026
“Once a year, the accumulation breaks me down to pieces and humbles the fuck out of me, and this past weekend was my breaking point.” Rebecca Woolf responds to Monica Danielle's last letter for Girl on Girl in this new installment titled "I Am Having a Breakdown." buff.ly/ebfVNjh
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 23/09/2026
"The bicycle's history is long, winding, and incredible. Its ancestor was created after a worldwide catastrophe." Consider the bicycle with @frednoland.bsky.social in this excerpt from his biographical comic Major Taylor. 🚲️ buff.ly/pcjaAcy
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 22/09/2026
"It provides shuddering violence toward women, coupled with a complete lack of responsibility from the men who push them to insanity..." Entertainment and culture writer Isabella Bernstein dives into the anti-woman body horror of The Substance. ➡️ buff.ly/7zsIQUt
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 22/09/2026
"green recollected in rain the color of saturated / cement, gray green, the coo / of doves outside the window, once green, the view" From "GREEN IN DROUGHT," one of two new poems by Mira Rosenthal. ➡️ buff.ly/eUrRJJ1
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 22/09/2026
The Rumpus Book Club is coming at you AGAIN this Friday at 7 p.m. ET, so don't forget to register at the link below to reserve your spot! Hosts @debbiemillman.bsky.social & @roxanegay.bsky.social will speak with Emily Wilson about her bestselling translation of The Odyssey. ➡️ buff.ly/Xg7RpXM
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 21/09/2026
"Stepping away from the printed text is freeing. It allows me to listen with greater focus, to encounter the poem differently..." In "Susan Howe: Music Until Proven Otherwise," musician David Grubbs discusses his composition process in collaboration with the poet Susan Howe. 🎵 buff.ly/cB1qpod
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 21/09/2026
"Sometimes your wolf becomes another wolf / Sometimes your sister, a different sister" From "THERE IS A PROVERB ABOUT THE THIEF CAUGHT STEALING DURING A FIRE," one of two new poems by A.R. Zarif. 🐺 buff.ly/mSESmPk
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 18/09/2026
"And I was alive. And I was human. And I was in pain. And I was every animal that wanted a way out." From "Synthetic Heaven," new nonfiction by Tina Huang. ➡️ buff.ly/rqDDNAj
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 18/09/2026
🚨 🚨 New column alert! 🚨 🚨 Twice each month, Diana Weymar will dig into the Rumpus archives and make a piece of art from one of our previously published pieces. The inaugural piece is based on Julie Marie Wade’s review of @andreagibson.bsky.social's poetry collection, Pansy. ➡️ buff.ly/gSV6g0I
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 18/09/2026
"His body was a glue trap that gathered all kinds of flotsam: unexplained bruises, living room stick-n-pokes, fat gained and lost." From "The Dumbbell," new fiction by @lukejsuth.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/2PCrEDz
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 17/09/2026
"the snail does not buckle / beneath its own shell— / may you bear your life’s burden / with the grace of weaver ants." From "Incantations for a Migrant’s Journey," new poetry by Gbolahan Badmus. ➡️ buff.ly/Wiko5Ki
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 17/09/2026
“The Group is a feat of tone control, threading the personal and the political gingerly and never toppling over...” @tessmcgeer.bsky.social introduces us, once again, to another entrant for her series "Books That Made Me Gay." Read all about The Group by Mary McCarthy buff.ly/jDNBSgk
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 17/09/2026
"...you don’t have to be a prophet to look at the American news and imagine a civil war." Writing the Long, Strange Aftermath: Kelsey Erin Shipman interviews @emilymandel.bsky.social about Exit Party (@aaknopf.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/A1EZxmB
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 17/09/2026
"Who is going to look at my mother and say 'Ms. Mathis, I’m sorry I almost killed you'?" From "you won't hear this," new nonfiction by @lydiamwrites.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/4PRsi4K
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 16/09/2026
"This intensity, this ability to find stories where others refuse to look, is the basis of Garvey’s project, taking place down winding country roads in a blood-red Cadillac." From "A Pair of Death Trips," new criticism by Narciso Novogratz. ➡️ buff.ly/TB3oi1d
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 15/09/2026
"I wanted to show how history enters the private sphere, how it transforms families, friendships, marriages, and even the way people remember themselves." @annelllopez.bsky.social interviews María Elena Morán about The Winds of Maracaibo (@aaknopf.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/9oaq5og
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 15/09/2026
"He rests his palms on my shoulder blades. He breathes audibly through his nose. He believes the silence was his hands. He has decided to be of further use." From "Off the Books," new fiction by @ausiastsel.com. ➡️ buff.ly/KxkbX2n
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 15/09/2026
"the play : acting surgically : cuts / the conceit : i am / some thing / alive : maybe" From "definition towards a cripple’s lexicon," new poetry by Benjamin J. Larner. ➡️ buff.ly/3Ye04Pf
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 14/09/2026
"Feeling unexpectedly bereft, I decided to make a new companion, to do just one small thing and see what rippled outwards." From "A Seafarer's Trifle," new fiction by @shelleyr-j.bsky.social. 🪳 buff.ly/4HjWP4d
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 12/09/2026
"Every one of those songs, somehow, to my mind, was about us, the 4 of us, my sisters and my brother and me, when we were us, before they broke us in half." From "A Postcard From Dolly," new nonfiction by Lauren Hough. ⭐️ buff.ly/Dq4p2h2
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 11/09/2026
"More and more, I’m interested in relinquishing the need to belong. Sometimes the desire to belong asks you to ignore parts of yourself in order to fit somewhere." Drag as Storytelling: Amanda E. Scott interviews @hieuminh.bsky.social about Staying Still (@tinhouse.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/yQibW79
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 11/09/2026
"There are too few places, especially in the US, in which a commitment to liberation and life for all oppressed peoples rings with such clarity." From "Singing History, Speaking Liberation: BlackStar Film Festival at 15," a new culture essay by Yasmina Price. 🎥 buff.ly/pKwf8Cd
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 11/09/2026
"This kind of stepping outside of capitalism isn’t so much an act of radical liberation as it is a way to keep your father alive." From "God of My Father," new nonfiction by Lizz Huerta. ➡️ buff.ly/AbzmjVF
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 11/09/2026
"No one saw or spoke to her besides me. Her eyes, almost black, were filled with muted light whenever she looked at me." From "Their Clear Unobstructed View," new fiction by W.S. Gong. ➡️ buff.ly/oO4jRnN
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The Rumpus @therumpus.net · 10/09/2026
"Everything is brightly illuminated, categorized, narrativized, and increasingly public, especially experiences that once belonged to the murky realm of private desire." From "Heaven, Hell, and Nowhere: Gregg Araki’s Changing Los Angeles," a new culture essay by Lucia Ahrensdorf. ➡️ buff.ly/Xo3b3br
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