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Zoe Zolbrod

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Zoe Zolbrod is the author of the award-winning memoir The Telling and the novel Currency. Her essays have appeared in places such as Salon, The Guardian, the Manifest Station, and The Rumpus, where she served as the Sunday co-editor.
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Figuring It Out: A Conversation with Rosellen Brown

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • October 15, 2018
Rosellen Brown discusses her new novel, THE LAKE ON FIRE.
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Reinventing Motherhood and Re-Dreaming Reality: Talking with Ariel Gore

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • September 29, 2017
Ariel Gore discusses her new novel We Were Witches, why capitalism and the banking system are the real enemies, and finding the limits between memoir and fiction.
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Sunday Links

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • February 7, 2016
This week I found myself reading way too much about the Democratic primary. To what extent is the expressed dislike of Hillary rooted in sexism? Is being the first woman…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Sarah Einstein

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • November 1, 2015
Mot was living my own fear... I wanted to learn from him how I might survive, if I too ended up without a home, without the resources to live what I thought of as a minimally decent life.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Chloe Caldwell

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • February 1, 2015
Chloe Caldwell talks about her new novella Women, gender nectar, break-up grief, and her impatience with analyzing the fiction/nonfiction divide.
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Sunday Links

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • January 11, 2015
What to do with the interesting or vexing stories from our lives, the people who fascinate us, the situations that obsesses us? Do we spin them into fictions or try…
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Sunday Links

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • December 21, 2014
Brooklyn Magazine’s Favorite Writers Share Their Favorite Childhood Books. One novel I loved when I was a kid was Madam Pastry and Meow. The details are fuzzy for me now,…
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  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • December 14, 2014
I find Lisa Carver’s bracing words about rejection fun to read but painful to put in practice. Here’s some scientific proof that rejection physically hurts. What makes me feel better…
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Sunday Links

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • November 30, 2014
Amy Monticello, the author of this week’s Sunday Rumpus essay, wrote about her father’s illness and death in real time (here’s a representative essay of hers from The Nervous Breakdown)…
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Sunday Links

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • November 23, 2014
This week I read a lot about rape. I became aware that Bill Cosby was almost certainly a rapist about 10 years ago, when Andrea Costand brought a civil suit…
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Sunday Links

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • November 9, 2014
This week’s Sunday Rumpus essay by Jean Kim got me thinking about the kind of retrospective realizations that make us wish we could go back in time and do something…
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  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • October 26, 2014
In talking to Molly Backes for this week’s Sunday Interview, Megan Stielstra mentions that she wants her readers to put down her book while reading in order to think, act,…
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