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The Rumpus Interview with Julie Lawson Timmer
Julie Lawson Timmer’s debut novel, Five Days Left, chronicles the lives of two people facing gut-wrenching choices. Mara Nichols, a successful lawyer, wife, and adoptive mother of five-year-old...
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Off Record
Say you buy your own story. You buy a copy of your medical records because you’ve come to realize the story you’ve told others is a whitewashed version of your own life, because you need to know, in...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Infarct, I Did
If you roost in a cave or even the hollow cavity of a tree you will probably understand everything I have to tell you. This essay is about blood, and draculin, and the truncated pumping of one human...
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Metaphors for My Forgetful Heart
I’m in middle school when my heart forgets how to beat. At least that’s how it’s explained to me—it forgot. My dad and I are sitting in my cardiologist’s office for a routine visit, me still in my gym...
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“The womb is the origin of all diseases,” reads a Hippocratic medical text from 5th century BC. In that time, hysteria, from the Greek word for uterus, was to blame for common inconveniences such a...
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CAN-CER-VIVE
It’s domestic duty day: food shopping, dry cleaners, returning overdue books. I make my one daily cup of coffee, then suck on a square of dark German chocolate, letting it melt on my tongue during slow...
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Open Letter to Our Body
The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry. There...
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Love Story as Case Study: A Conversation with Rheea Mukherjee
Nearly ten years ago, Rheea Mukherjee and I met as students in the graduate creative writing program at California College for the Arts in San Francisco. We became fast friends; I was fascinated by...
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