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Creating a Fractured Whole: Megan Culhane Galbraith’s The Guild of the Infant Saviour

  • Chin-Sun Lee
  • October 6, 2021
To have lost, found, and then lost again seems especially wrenching, a kind of unmothering.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Wild Animals

  • Ren Weber
  • May 27, 2020
I searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Two Flash Fictions by Andrea Passwater

  • Andrea Passwater
  • October 30, 2019
Could scars be daughters? The hands don’t understand why I am asking this.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #195: Curdella Forbes

  • Donna Hemans
  • October 10, 2019
“I wanted the thing to feel as ordinary as bread.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Ayşe Papatya Bucak

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • September 18, 2019
Ayşe Papatya Bucak discusses her debut story collection, THE TROJAN WAR MUSEUM.
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What Turns Up: A Conversation with Peg Alford Pursell

  • Kate Milliken
  • July 8, 2019
Peg Alford Pursell discusses her new story collection, A GIRL GOES INTO THE FOREST.
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Fidelity to Deep Emotion: Lauren Groff’s Florida

  • Sasha Burshteyn
  • August 1, 2018
The sentence is Groff’s most fertile ground.
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Claiming Space: A Conversation with Elizabeth Crane

  • Meagan P. Kavouras
  • November 20, 2017
Elizabeth Crane discusses her latest collection, Turf, how where she has lived has shaped her work, and why she loves writing in first-person plural.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: My Name Is Jean-Pierre and I Am Still an End Table

  • Dana Schwartz
  • October 25, 2017
I am glad to be free of that tyrant, even if it means I am an end table waddling inch-by-inch down this path on a foolish mission that might prove impossible. I may be an end table, but at least I am free.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #59: Marisa Silver

  • Cecil Castllecci
  • November 24, 2016
Marisa Silver is a formidable writer. The world she weaves is masterfully laid out. Her sharp eye focuses on the brutal changes that women experience, not just emotionally but physically…
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What We Lost: Undoing the Fairy Tale Narrative of Adoption

  • Liz Latty
  • November 17, 2016
The singular, unavoidable truth about adoption is that it requires the undoing of one family so that another one can come into being.
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