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“That it is radical to think of Muslims as humans is made obvious by how casually Mamdani’s opponents in this mayoral election engage in anti-Muslim hate.”

From "Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign and the Radical Idea that Muslims are Human" by @hebagowayed.bsky.social.

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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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"Bang. Bang. Bang. I even felt it in my skull. My eyes, they're still throbbing."

Our next Letter in the Mail (from authors!) comes from A. M. Sosa, author of And I'll Take Out Your Eyes (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social).

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November 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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"Because I grew up so intimately with these Cain and Abel fables, I knew them like the back of my hand. They were the stories I grew up with, stories I fell asleep to."

Shlagha Borah interviews I.S. Jones about Bloodmercy (@ampoetryreview.bsky.social).

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I.S. Jones's author photo. In the lower righthand corner is the book cover for Bloodmercy. To the left of the book in white is written "Mythmaking and A Codependent Sisterhood, A conversation with I.S. Jones by Shlagha Borah"
November 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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"The essay itself was just such an echo, almost like a haunting."

Avenging Aaliyah and the Non-Event of Dead Girls: Ashley-Devon Williamston interviews @mickmakesmagic.bsky.social about Dead Girl Cameo: A Love Song in Poems (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social).

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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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"It is not my life. It is the world’s life, and the world’s life is in seasons. And when I disappear from this earth, we will have seasons."

From the Archives: Annelies Zijderveld interviews Ada Limón about The Hurting Kind (Milkweed Editions).

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November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Our next Letter in the Mail (from authors!) comes from Leni Zumas (@lenizumas.bsky.social), author of Red Clocks and Wolf Bells (@algonquinbooks.bsky.social).

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November 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Small Press Sunday is at it again featuring Jamii Publishing on Sunday, November 2! Join our host with the most @janetrodriguez.bsky.social and founder of Jamii Publishing Nikia Chaney at 3:30 PT / 6:30 ET to peek behind the curtain of one of your favorite small presses. See you there on Insta Live!
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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“Imagine a whole segment of the world full of people with all these small cuts who are doing their best to move beyond the pain of their wounds.”

Chelsea Voulgares interviews Chinelo Okparanta about Harry Sylvester Bird.

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"Centering, Appropriation, and Satire: A Conversation with Chinelo Okparanta by Chelsea Voulgares" written in black at the bottom of Okparanta's author photo. In the lower lefthand corner is the book cover for Harry Sylvester Bird.
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“Grief is the Easter Moon lily that blooms in / an empty room. It is not the canyon / glowing, like the inside of a persimmon torn / open by thumbs.”

From "Lento Notes," poetry from the archives by Winshen Liu.

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October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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“In private, I wondered if I was the worst person I knew. It felt all the time like something terrible was about to happen.”

From "All This Will Be Underwater," fiction from the archives by Erin Gravley.

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October 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Our next Letter in the Mail (from authors!) comes from @scumbelievable.bsky.social, author of Black Flame, Cuckoo, and Manhunt. She's also this month's featured LITM author!

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October 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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You're gonna want to climb out of your bog for this next installment of Show Us Your Desk with @gregmania.bsky.social and this month's guest @annanorth.bsky.social, author of BOG QUEEN (@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social). We'll see you all on Tuesday, October 14 at 3 pm ET / 12 pm PT on Instagram Live.
October 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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"I think it's the house trying to get in. It's testing out the walls, trying to dream enough space to crawl in."

From "Which House," a new original comic by Mariah Gese.

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October 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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“That space—the stutter, the pause, the gesture—is where the actual teaching happens.”

From "Human Error is the Point," a new original essay by @phlat-soda.bsky.social.

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October 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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“It’s very much about the wish for more and for better, as well as about the faltering and footsteps along the way.”

@tiffanytroy.bsky.social interviews Kevin Young about Night Watch (@aaknopf.bsky.social).

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"Let there / be night, A conversation with Kevin Young by Tiffany Troy" written in white on the bottom right of Young's author photo. To the left of these words is the cover for Night Watch beneath the full Rumpus logo in white.
October 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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"These books remake the old as not only a warning, but as a mode of collective power amidst the crises of our era."

"What to Read When It's Dangerous to Be a Girl" by @racheltaube.bsky.social. Featuring titles by @sallywenmao.bsky.social, @rebekahbergman.bsky.social and more.

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October 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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“I didn’t want to produce another tech dystopia. We’re living that; we’re familiar enough with it.”

@chelsvoulgares.bsky.social interviews Elaine Castillo about Moderation (@vikingbooks.bsky.social).

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"Labor and Trauma in the American Workplace: A Conversation with Elaine Castillo by Chelsea Voulgares" written in white at the bottom left of Castillo's author photo. To the right is the book cover for Moderation beneath the full Rumpus logo in white.
October 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“Anything feels possible—that this might go on forever, that something is broken beyond repair.”

From "Transubstantiations," a new original essay by Caitlin Hoerr.

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October 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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"As for my approach to writing comic fiction in general, the simple answer is that I try to make myself laugh."

@chayab77.bsky.social interviews Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ed Park on his Debut Short Story Collection, An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House).

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October 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Up next on the Small Press Sunday roster is @rosemetalpress.bsky.social on Sunday, October 5! Join [email protected] and one of Rose Metal Press's cofounders Abigail Beckel at 3:30 PT / 6:30 ET to peek behind the curtain of one of your favorite small presses. See you there on Insta Live!
October 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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“Women are so eager to hate their bodies.”

From “Be Clean, Be Loved,” a new original essay by Yasmine Ameli.

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September 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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“Blume’s clean, straight-forward prose—never indulgent, always sincere—still works like an emotional Swiss Army knife...”

From Books That Made Me Gay: “Summer Sisters” by Judy Blume, a new Rumpus original column by Tess McGeer.

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September 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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"Somehow, it was easier to fear an invisible, mythical being who was the source of all evil in the world, than to recognize the devil among us."

From the Rumpus original comic "Groomed By the Church: How The Clash Saved My Soul" by David Adey.

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September 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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“I admire this story for its deftness and compassion. It covers so much of the stuff of life: marriage, aging, love, desire—but never reductively, and always with deep understanding.”

Rumpus Prize fiction judge Rachel Khong on Josie Tolin’s story, “Fucking Illinois People.”

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September 27, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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“I saw myself from a distance, my fear reactions more sympathetic and understandable. EMDR tries to make the immeasurable measurable.”

From "Your Body is Everywhere," a new original essay by Jane Dykema.

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September 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM