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On Trauma, Memory, and Language: Talking with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

  • Arya Roshanian
  • August 30, 2021
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses her new novel, SAVAGE TONGUES.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Alone?

  • Nadia Shahbaz
  • December 16, 2020
Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
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The Lonesome Home: A Conversation with Aria Aber

  • Aileen Keown Vaux
  • June 15, 2020
Aria Aber discusses her debut poetry collection, HARD DAMAGE.
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Abstracting Yourself: A Conversation with Robin Hemley

  • Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
  • April 24, 2020
Robin Hemley discusses his new essay collection, BORDERLINE CITIZEN.
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Terror Is a Faggot with Halal Sausages Strapped to His Chest

  • Bobuq Sayed
  • October 23, 2019
Dishonesty became a form of protection.
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A Parcel of Stories: Hard Damage by Aria Aber

  • Marie Scarles
  • September 6, 2019
The speaker in Hard Damage, it seems, is writing herself to life.
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Trudging Down Death Road

  • Tega Oghenechovwen
  • July 15, 2019
Reveal yourself. Reveal yourself. You cannot be dead. Reveal yourself.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #159: John Wray

  • Kevin Zambrano
  • December 20, 2018
“I think the material itself should be calling the shots.”
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Nothing Foreign about It: Talking with Omar El Akkad

  • Tochi Onyebuchi
  • October 11, 2017
Omar El Akkad discusses his debut novel American War, suicide terrorism, fossil fuels, and blankets.
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There Is No Answer: Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles

  • Bradley Babendir
  • July 20, 2017
As Sentilles makes clear, she is against the wars the United States is currently involved in, and war in general, but she’s critical of what that means.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 13): “Letter to Simic from Boulder”

  • David Biespiel
  • May 23, 2017
"Wherever you are on earth, you are safe,” writes Richard Hugo. Really?
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The Last Book I Loved: Poeta en San Francisco by Barbara Jane Reyes

  • Abigail Licad
  • March 2, 2017
Through incisive and uncompromising verse, Reyes unearths the hypocrisy at work in exalted American democracy...
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