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...moreAlden Jones shares a reading list to celebrate THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS.
...more“I was moved to write the unspeakable and unsayable.”
...moreJerald Walker discusses his memoir, The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult, the story of his childhood in The Worldwide Church of God, and how the act of writing delivered him from bitterness.
...moreGarth Greenwell discusses his debut novel, What Belongs to You, crossing boundaries, language as defense, and the queer tradition of novel writing that blurs boundaries between fiction and essay and autobiography.
...moreAlden Jones reviews Purity by Jonathan Franzen today in Rumpus Books.
...moreLidia Yuknavitch discusses her latest book, The Small Backs of Children, war, art, the chaos of experience, and that photograph of the vulture stalking the dying child in the Sudan that won the Pulitzer Prize.
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