Rebekah Frumkin
Rebekah Frumkin’s novel, The Comedown, was published by Henry Holt in 2018. Their work has appeared in Guernica, the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, Outside, Pacific Standard, and the Best American Nonrequired Reading. They are an assistant professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University.
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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Feeling Bullish: On My Great-Uncle, Gay Matador and Friend of Hemingway
Rebekah Frumkin
‘In his suit, with his pigtail and his montera, he was pure potential: he could be masculine vanquisher or gold-embroidered fairy. He was both, actually, at all times, and nobody who came to see him fight thought any less of him for it.’
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Fugato
Rebekah Frumkin
New fiction from Rebekah Frumkin, featuring psychiatrists brandishing DSM–5, delusions, transference and the menacing voice of Alex Trebek.
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
American Maniac
Rebekah Frumkin
‘I would peel wrappers off sandwiches, remove noodles from their boxes, fry up meat before any authorities had the chance to track me and my bounty down.’
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Abyss
Rebekah Frumkin
‘I came home this past fall to the Chicago suburb where I’d lived with my parents from age nine until I left for college in 2008, and I moved back into my childhood bedroom.’
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The Glitch
Rebekah Frumkin
‘Them and not me, thought EJP. I can be invisible. I’m glitching.’
