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Anna March
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #3: Dogs
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” –Groucho Marx
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #2: Line My Eyes and Call Me Pretty?
Every one of these gorgeously written books will explode your brain and the stories will transport you, even as they grapple with binaries, traditional roles, narrow expectations, breaking free, who we are…. and who we long to be. Sex, gender,…
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The Last Book I Loved: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
What makes a person who they are? Is evil born or made?
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Sarah Hepola
Editor and writer Sarah Hepola talks about her new memoir Blackout, how gender affects alcoholism, writing about female friendships, and the writers who’ve influenced her.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Dasha Kelly
In this interview with Anna March, Dasha Kelly talks about her new novel Almost Crimson and what happens “when your mother is the reason for everything but at fault for nothing”.
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The Fine Art of Fucking Up by Cate Dicharry
Cate Dicharry’s excellent debut novel, The Fine Art of Fucking Up, weaves humor and humanity to explore one woman’s personal and professional dissatisfaction and to suggest how we all might be able to cleave past our setbacks to find our own…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Dead Girls Sold Here
Why then are we comfortable with women routinely being cast as the victims of violence? Why don’t we see that as sexist? Where is the outrage?
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Cristina Henríquez
Anna March talks with Chicago writer Cristina Henríquez about compassion, generosity, and her new novel, The Book of Unknown Americans.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Robin Black
“I wish I could manipulate time and space and whatever other dimensions necessary to publish my work once as a woman and then as a man – and compare the reactions.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: What Happened Here (a Novella & Stories) by Bonnie ZoBell
The September 1978 collision and subsequent crash of Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182 and a Cesena in the urban North Park area of San Diego still cast a large shadow over the neighborhood. The destruction and aftermath of the accident…
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My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead
I was walking around Washington, D.C., my hometown and the city where I lived for 34 years, while reading Rebecca Mead’s My Life in Middlemarch. I imagined all the selves I had been while walking on a few blocks full…