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Dearest Readers,
Please enjoy another brief installation of "shit I found on the internet that is so ridiculous I want to buy it."
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Are you ready to tuck'n'roll into the end of the year panic/sprint? No? Me neither, but I am excited for all the upcoming gift guides, which is one of my favorite genres. We'll have some special ones of our own this year—stay tuned.
Till next time,
AS
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New Voices of Addiction essay by Gretchen VanWormer
"The Hypnotist": Dad quit smoking via a hypnotist shortly before my sister Margaret was born. When I was eight or nine, he liked telling me the story of the hypnosis, sitting together on the green sofa in the living room, parallelograms of sunlight on the brown carpet.
New Funny Women by Rachel Mann
"Things I Wish I Could Workshop Other Than My Novel"
Interviews by Shannon Peri and Ilya Kaminsky re. male friendship + Scott Hutchinson of Frightened Rabbitre. J. Hope Stein + the lyricNew Original Fiction by Tara Isabel Zambrano and K.C. Meade-Brewer
"Rapunzel House": It’s not a coffin, it just looks like one because of the sloped attic someone added on top. A black, trapezoidal cap atop a red brick rowhome. I’m sure the neighbors hate it; it’s the only house in the row who has one.
"White Ash": My wife, Ritu, a receptionist at a motel, works four nights a week. In the morning, I pick her up in our used Honda and drive her home. After she showers, I bring her a cup of fresh ginger and cardamom tea. . . . I place my hand on her knee. She doesn’t push my hand away like she used to, but I know she isn’t fine.
New Essays by Akhim Alexis and April Lim
"Thalassophobia: The Black Boy and the Sea": On the northeast coast of Trinidad rests Balandra beach, a familiar escape and a home to many. Here, where the Atlantic kisses the Caribbean, I remember.
"Forest": 林. Lim. Forest. My last name’s origin story begins with the Shang dynasty’s end. The cruel king who would not change his ways and the king’s uncle, his sage. The sage stayed by the king’s side in hopes of persuading him to kindness.
Reviews by Hilary Sun, Hannah Bonner, and Nwokedi Kenechukwu ofBabel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ RevolutionHotel OblivionYou Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
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Letters in the Mail (from authors)
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Letters in the Mail (for adult readers) upcoming authors include: Joe Meno, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, J. Estanislao Lopez
LAST CALL for Letters in the Mail for Kids (ages ~8-12) upcoming authors include: Betsy Uhrig, Stacy Nockowitz, Laura Rueckert
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Sign up by November 15 to receive Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor and/or How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler. You'll also be invited to an exclusive online discussion with the book's author the last week of the month (we'll send you a pass code to join). These will take place on the Rumpus Crowdcast channel and will remain available to members for 1 month after they take place.
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This week we're sharing an excerpt from our December Poetry Book Club selection, CONCENTRATE by Courtney Faye Taylor, from Graywolf Press.
"Paradise"
Aunt Notrie died in the t-shirt & tummy of
the man in the middle of America;~ was cervical, o-
varian? one of the southern cancers;~ like the last
blast of eczema, she left a considerable
itch in her dying;~ obese grief nursed on me
like a satin leech;~ xanax, a holy host, a
nimble quilt;~ her favorite color
was silk, which was not also her
favorite feeling;~ thank the Black redeemer
it was me;~ urine running
clear for weeks;~ snatching a fist-
ful of denim to uproot a cameltoe but
with it coming the bush unburning;~ being
colored is cooling hands down the sweats
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