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Tabitha Blankenbiller

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Tabitha Blankenbiller lives outside of Portland, Oregon with her husband and daughter. She teaches pop culture writing with Catapult, and her essays have been featured in Salon, Tin House, Serious Eats, Electric Lit, Narratively, and a number of other publications. Her debut collection Eats of Eden was released in 2018. If you are very into food, crafts, and themed outfits, follow her on Instagram @tabithabee.
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Nightmares Before Christmas

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • December 8, 2020
No one is coming to save us but ourselves.
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Intimate Characters: Talking with Laura Bogart

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • July 31, 2020
Laura Bogart discusses her debut novel, DON’T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.
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A Badass Just Because: Talking with Steph Post

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • January 18, 2019
Steph Post discusses her new novel, MIRACULUM.
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What to Read When You’re Hungry

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • February 23, 2018
Each [cookbook] is a ticket into an immersive opportunity for new dishes, new ingredients, new love.
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The Earth Recycles All of Us: Talking with Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • February 19, 2018
Micheline Aharonian Marcom discusses her novel, The Brick House, female sexuality in literature, and transcendence through dreaming.
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I Choose My Pearls: On Feminism, Fashion, and Disneyland

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • July 20, 2017
Women don’t need laws to repress their fashion, comfort, identity, or preference. Our society’s deft ability to shame does all the heavy lifting.
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The Rumpus Review of Ghostbusters

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • July 28, 2016
An agenda can only exist when there is a contingent opposing it. We only push for representation when so many hours and characters of wrath are poured into keeping us out.
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The Slow Fall of the Hot Heroine

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • March 24, 2016
If nothing else, it’s the opinion of other women that encroaches on mine. Resemblances spark my joy; differences become character flaws.
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The Rumpus Interview with Deborah Reed

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • September 25, 2015
Author Deborah Reed discusses her latest novel, Olivay, the necessity of fire, Los Angeles anxiety, and how she found fulfillment at the edge of the American West.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Fat Girl’s Benediction

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • February 21, 2015
Why couldn’t I accept my body for what it wanted to be? It’s what I harped on the rest of the world to do.
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