Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”
I’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.
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Posts by: Alden Jones
What to Read When You Want to Run Away from Your Life
Alden Jones shares a reading list to celebrate THE WANTING WAS A WILDERNESS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #177: Grace Talusan
“I was moved to write the unspeakable and unsayable.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Jerald Walker
Jerald 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.
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The Rumpus Interview with Garth Greenwell
Garth 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.
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Purity by Jonathan Franzen
Alden Jones reviews Purity by Jonathan Franzen today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia 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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