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Fractured Realities: Me & Other Writing by Marguerite Duras
We fail in sympathy with the world, but we write apart from it.
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Abi Palmer discusses her new book, SANATORIUM.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan
“Memoir is about recreating the complexities of a life.”
The Promise of Werfel’s Musa Dagh: Portraying Genocide in Fiction
How does a fictional account come to stand in for history?
This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
In Protest of a Body that Refuses to End
All I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.
Silence Is the Fertile Field: Talking with Fenton Johnson
Fenton Johnson discusses his new book, AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY.