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That’s the Metaphor: A Conversation with Kendra Allen

  • Nabila Lovelace
  • July 7, 2021
Kendra Allen discusses her debut poetry collection, THE COLLECTION PLATE.
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The Complications of #MeToo: Mary Gaitskill’s This Is Pleasure

  • Alicia Ezekiel-Pipkin
  • August 26, 2020
Quin, too, must make sense of his behavior and the consequences.
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Voices on Addiction: One More Conversation

  • Britt Canty
  • February 25, 2019
That’s how I felt again, then: a child suddenly fallen, helpless. Unable even to breathe.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #161: Andrea Baker

  • Allyson Hoffman
  • January 17, 2019
“I had to save my own life. I had the right to save my own life.”
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Blood from a Door Nail: Talking with Susan Shapiro

  • Jane Ratcliffe
  • August 13, 2018
Susan Shapiro discusses her forthcoming book THE BYLINE BIBLE.
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These Places Surround Me: Talking with Quintan Ana Wikswo

  • Sara Rauch
  • May 4, 2018
Quintan Ana Wikswo discusses her novel, A Long Curving Scar Where the Heart Should Be, delving into the facets of trauma, and her creative processes.
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This Is What I Get for Wanting

  • Jenni Miller
  • February 14, 2018
When I cried over the phone, asking him if he was dumping me, he said in his gentle voice, “Sweetheart, we weren’t really a thing yet.”
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Periphery: Exploring Bombs, Boundaries, and Family History

  • Tyler Mills
  • August 9, 2017
Have you ever seen a feathery shadow at the edge of your eye? Was it a figure? Did it cross into your vision, like a hummingbird there and gone?
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jessica Berger Gross

  • Sari Botton
  • July 12, 2017
Jessica Berger Gross discusses her new memoir, Estranged: Leaving Family and Finding Home, walking away from her parents age of twenty-eight, and the importance of boundaries.
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The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Febos

  • Leigh Stein
  • February 27, 2017
Melissa Febos discusses Abandon Me, confessional writing, Billie Holiday, reenacting trauma, cataloguing narratives, and searching for identity.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Ideal Lover

  • Corinne Manning
  • February 18, 2017
I don’t mind being left with a bruise if it reminds me that someone imagined something for me, that art can be part of the experience.
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The Rumpus Interview with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

  • Megha Majumdar
  • December 11, 2015
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on her new book The Cosmopolites, the citizenship market, nearly getting deported in the Comoros, and learning to show up and wait.
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