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Posts Tagged: waiter

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Nádleehí: One Who Changes

By Byron F. Aspaas

January 14th, 2017

I am scared. I will continue to be scared. I am scared that, one day, I will not be able to run as fast as my dad who eluded rocks and a tire iron.

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Tags: Byron F. Aspaas, Charlotte’s Web, childhood, Chokecherry Canyon, Clint John, coming out, craigslist, DAPL, diabetes, Diné, environment, family, Farmington, fathers, fear, Fred Martinez Jr., gay, history, homophobia, Indigenous, Kirtland, Lakota, LGBTQ, Loreal Tsingine, monsters, mothers, Nakota, Native American, Navajo, New Mexico, North Dakota, Outback, parents, police violence, protest, Racism, Robert Fry, safety, Shiprock, Sioux, Standing Rock, waiter

The Rumpus Three-Way Interview: An Incomplete Catharsis

By Matthew Salesses

September 7th, 2015

Carmiel Banasky, Alexandra Kleeman, and Matthew Salesses on their new novels, writing from a place of tension, and how our writing changes as we do.

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Tags: adoptee, Alexandra Kleeman, autobiography, Bread Loaf, breakthrough, Carmiel Banasky, character-building, Director's Cut, Easter eggs, empathy, fantasy novel, incomplete catharsis, Kandy Kat, Korean American, madness, Matthew Salesses, orange trees, Prague, prologue, schizophrenia, Sex Scenes, The Hundred-Year Flood, The Suicide of Claire Bishop, waiter, You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine

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