Rafael Frumkin
Rafael Frumkin’s novel, The Comedown, was published by Henry Holt in 2018. His work has appeared in Guernica, the Washington Post, McSweeney’s, Outside, Pacific Standard, and the Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Southern Illinois University.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Feeling Bullish: On My Great-Uncle, Gay Matador and Friend of Hemingway
Rafael 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.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
American Maniac
Rafael 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 & Memoir | Issue 129
The Abyss
Rafael 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.’
Fiction | Issue 125
The Glitch
Rafael Frumkin
‘Them and not me, thought EJP. I can be invisible. I’m glitching.’
