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Rich Kids Want to Die Too: Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized
…[BERLIN ATOMIZED is] about the internal and external chaos of growing up during globalization in an exploding, rootless world—one in which young people can’t tell who they are.
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Love, Grief, and the Search for Postpartum Healing: A Conversation with Shayne Terry
For me, the process of essay play involves a lot of making things visible that were invisible, which often means circling back to show what else was there.
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A Bloody Brilliant Sentence: Erotic Linguistics in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”
…I had not yet read horror written by another woman with such a rich, arresting evocation of female sexuality.
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Parallel Practice: How to Break a Sentence
Which color might capture the word “would,” for example? And which stitch?
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Voice as the Sunlight of the Story: A Conversation with Robert Shapard
Voice is the sunlight of the story for me, the starting point.
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Losers Keepers
It’s hard to go on reading when you don’t remember what happened twenty pages ago, so I haven’t read many novels recently.
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“stones will know”: On Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood
Hood wonders how to write rape and its aftermath when its very nature is fragmentation, a form that disqualifies it as a story.
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A Poetics of Witness: Jeddie Sophronius’s Interrogation Records
Sophronius writes from an awareness of Chinese Indonesian marginality, yet the pulse of the collection’s counternarrative coheres around an Indonesian national identity.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: I Couldn’t Say It Was Tuesday
“You need to watch the news. Aren’t you interested in the world? Very important to know what’s going on in the world.”
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Redefining Memoir: A Conversation with Jackie Domenus
For queer and trans writers, our narratives are usually not traditional or linear.
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What to Read When Walking Through a Graveyard
What is lost so that a book may live? What is shoveled so that a memoir may memorialize?
