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Lisa Dusenbery

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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.

Versal Ten

Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay’s short story “Who We Are Beneath the Glass” is featured in Versal’s 10th anniversary issue. The Versal Journal interviews her about creative firsts, angles, Amsterdam,…
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OG Dad Love

Media Bistro linked to Jerry Stahl’s OG (Old Guy) Dad series, highlighting yesterday’s “raw and gritty” OG DAD #7: A Stahl Is Born. Thanks, Media Bistro. We love you back!
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End Times

“Long a preoccupation of science fiction and horror writing, the apocalypse, as it looms closer, has become more intriguing to writers of literary fiction, more necessary to address. The last…
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Process Talk

At Bomblog, writer Melissa Febos and musician Kathleen Hanna discuss the creative process, collaboration versus doing it alone, writing about sex work, nasty online commenters, and more. “Even while I…
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Québécois

“Québec has long been a holdout, but that era’s over. Which makes the students indisputedly right about one thing: the problem with ‘reforms’ like these is that they constitute an…
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