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Lipson’s ability to do both with precision and compassion, often within the span of a single essay, will touch readers who are mothers, but also readers like me—and like all of us—who know what it is to have a mother.

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Fiction

Rumpus Original Fiction: For the Love of a Body

Conversation was playful; he was charming, I was witty. Our humor bounced off each other seamlessly, smiles and laughs came easy as breathing.

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Interviews

Less Workshop, More Sensibility: A Conversation with Emma Pattee

I thought, “You’re not allowed to write a book that’s just about a woman walking. That’s not even a book. That doesn’t even make sense.”

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Funny Women

Women’s History Month Series Lineup

March is Women’s History Month, and streamers will deliver new, groundbreaking series centering women.

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We Can and Should Go Home Again: Raye Hendrix’s What Good is Heaven

These poems feel grainy with rich texture, like sinking your hands into the soil, the way it stays between your fingers all day if you don’t scrub your hands clean.

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Interviews

Funny and Large and Wild: A Conversation with Sarah Lyn Rogers

I’m interested in knowing when I’m lying to myself and how that allows me to make different choices later.

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Essays

Deficiency

I’ve never had a cavity, but I brush too hard. A decade ago, a dentist told me I was scrubbing away my own flesh.

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Reviews

Pawn or Perpetrator: Nussaibah Younis’s Fundamentally

Younis, given her expertise in Iraqi politics and international affairs, offers welcome insight into a realm that is often only shown in snippets on the news.

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