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To the Letter: A Conversation with Virgina Evans
“ I wanted the story to be a tight ball of yarn even though there were a million strands. It had to be tight to keep a reader’s interest, so there was an element of looping back almost like a…
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Embracing Constraint through the Expansion of Going Deeper: A Conversation with Tayyba Kanwal
“I think “escape” does work in that we all need to escape our constraints. How we escape them is the question. Do you escape by breaking down the structures? Or do you escape control by finding ways to accomplish what…
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When I Die and Go To Hell
Even before her Alzheimer’s, my mother could only remember punchlines, no idea the rest of the joke.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: One of the Good Ones
When I first met Matteo—that is, when we were both eight years old—I had the habit of falling madly in love with anyone who shared a desk with me. A boy would ask to borrow a sheet of notebook paper,…
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Procrastistitching and Learning Who You Are
This little collection of essays made me want to sew. And knit. And do a bit of embroidery. It made me want to slow down, and create the world I want to live in.
