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A Dad in the World

  • KC Councilor
  • June 6, 2024
I always knew I wanted to be a parent, but I didn't know I'd be a dad specifically.
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A Tight-Lipped Kind of Love: Jennifer Manthey’s The Fight

  • Avia Tadmor
  • June 5, 2024
Through her terse yet piercing consideration of this school fight...Manthey asks us to look directly into the historically charged layers of the book’s eponymous fight.
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Living in The In Between: A Conversation with Anna Mantzaris

  • Charlotte Fleming
  • June 5, 2024
When women are in partnerships—being a wife or a girlfriend of a partner—we take on all these different roles but they’re always changing. Our jobs are always changing and evolving.
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Telling My Daughter the List of Things I’ve Been Wrong About

  • Sarah Carson
  • June 4, 2024
There are far more jumbled states possible than whole ones, but occasionally in the shaking, maybe a piece or two comes out together.
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Like A Mother: Joyelle McSweeney’s Death Styles

  • Anne Gerard
  • June 4, 2024
For the reader, it is the dedication before McSweeney’s first poem, “for my daughters,” that signals it is time to read.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Care and Feeding

  • Kate Broad
  • June 3, 2024
“He’s called before—it’s all routine,” the dispatcher assured him.
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“If You Give a Story Something, It Gives It Back:” A Conversation with Morgan Talty

  • J Brooke
  • June 3, 2024
A writer isn’t in control of what’s on the page, the story is. But if you give a story something, it gives it back.
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What to Read When You Want to Leave

  • Kelly McMasters
  • May 31, 2024
No one can do the hard work of leaving for you, but you can arm yourself with the stories of others—the closest I’ve come to finding a blueprint.
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Ephemera and Artifacts: A Conversation with Sejal Shah

  • Kelly Sundberg
  • May 29, 2024
So many stories are written for/about male heroes with a traditional, predictable plot. That’s not to say that I didn’t and don’t hope other people would read and be interested in these stories, but I wrote them first for myself.
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The Slow Melting of Faces: A Conversation with Maria Bamford

  • Barrett Bowlin
  • May 29, 2024
You could write about this weird thing, and people who like to read will be down to find out about this different world. It’s a very different situation in a nightclub or a theater.
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  • Voices on Addiction

Voices on Addiction: If You Give

  • Vince Granata
  • May 28, 2024
“He’s going to want a cookie to go with it.”She seemed to exhale on the mouse’s behalf. Thank God, another cookie.
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we were the universe
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Gilded: Kimberly King Parsons’s We Were the Universe

  • Hannah Jansen
  • May 28, 2024
The opening—that split person—might serve as a metaphor for a book told from the perspective of a person embroiled in grief: someone half in the past, trying, in different ways, to get out.
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