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When A Tree Falls
Anamika learnt from her mother that the fate of the beautiful was to belong to the rich, to help upgrade their genetic pool till an army of their rich and beautiful offspring ruled the world. Natural selection by devious design.…
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“Breaking the Line Until It Felt Right:” A Conversation with Kendra Allen
Fiction has been so surprising for me—especially whenever I have to speak about the book—because for the first time in my writing life, no one is looking at the ‘I’ as me. There’s recourse in assumption, whereas with memoir—with personal…
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Lux Nightmare Is Not A Porn Star
Just a year and a half prior to finding Shalit’s email in my inbox, I was the proprietor of my very own porn site, That Strange Girl, which I’d started right before my senior year of college. It was a…
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The September Rumpus Book Club Selection: “The Odyssey” with Emily Wilson
Written in iambic pentameter verse, Emily Wilson’s Odyssey is a lean, fleet-footed translation that recaptures Homer’s “nimble gallop” and brings an ancient epic to new life. The New York Times named Wilson’s translation as one of its 100 notable books…
