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The November Rumpus Bookclub: Barbara Kingsolver
The November installment of the relaunched The Rumpus Book Club* will be on November 16 at 5pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and New York Times best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver about her…
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A Certain Grace
Can we ever know how well we are loved by our parents? Can we ever truly fathom it—the way they feel about us as people during our years of overlap, from our childhood and their adulthood to our adulthood and…
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Girl on Girl: Whore Is Not a Character Reference
When I told him I was pregnant, he sobbed, screamed, and punched my dashboard hard enough to partially dislodge the airbag. I calmed him down by telling him I’d just noticed the grocery store test had expired. Maybe it was…
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Rewriting the Western as Poems with Skin in the Genre: A Conversation with Aileen Keown Vaux
I can’t un-observe the ways in which my communities are impacted by catastrophic weather events. If I am hiking in the forest, I am seeking the transcendent joy of standing next to a 200-foot waterfall, as well as noting that…
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Sunday Scaries: Personal Statement
When Dad was alive I never thought much about his teeth. Before he got sick, and even after, he would do this thing where he’d say, all serious, “Do I have anything in my teeth?” and then he’d smile real…
