What to Read When You Hunger for Innovative, Newly Released LGBTQIA+ Voices
Liz Asch shares a reading list to celebrate YOUR SALT ON MY LIPS.
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Books
A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight
In Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.
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The Idiosyncrasies of Aging: Talking with Ali Solomon
Ali Solomon discusses her new book, I AM WHY DO I NEED VENMO? YEARS OLD.
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A Universe of Enterprising Divas: Raphael Cormack‘s Midnight in Cairo
In Midnight in Cairo, the lives of the enterprising divas are interlinked.
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Haunted, Beloved: A Conversation with Jacques Rancourt
Jacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
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A Space to Include the Excess: Talking with Janice Lee
Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
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What to Read When in Search of Bodies
Megan Milks shares a reading list to celebrate MARGARET AND THE MISSING BODY.
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Like Clockwork, Like Memory: There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife by JinJin Xu
How to live with a love so intense, a pressure so ripe?
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Grab Hold the Rope of Language: A Conversation with Jan Beatty
Jan Beatty discusses her new memoir, AMERICAN BASTARD.
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A Transcendent Wilderness: Andrew J. Graff’s Raft of Stars
In particular, Graff’s river is numinous. It’s the center of everything.
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The Plane That We Inhabit: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones
Ashley M. Jones discusses her new poetry collection, REPARATIONS NOW!.
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Lightning Rods and Line Breaks: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed
Frighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.
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Language as a Kind of Home: Talking with Anne Liu Kellor
Anne Liu Kellor discusses her debut memoir, HEART RADICAL.
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The Fractures of Motherhood: Julia Fine’s The Upstairs House
Like Fine’s uniquely constructed book, being a mom is to be permanently fractured.
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There Are No Rules: A Conversation with Jo Lloyd
Jo Lloyd discusses her debut story collection, SOMETHING WONDERFUL.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kaveh Akbar
Kaveh Akbar discusses his new collection, PILGRIM BELL.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Tick Tock Write”
“Tick tock tick tock,” Raven says. “It’s my departure or yours.”
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On Trauma, Memory, and Language: Talking with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses her new novel, SAVAGE TONGUES.
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What to Read When You Want Reparations Now
Ashley M. Jones shares a reading list to celebrate REPARATIONS NOW!.
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There Are No Cheap Seats in Lauren Shapiro’s Arena
Resonance is a given. You can’t help but hear. In Lauren Shapiro’s Arena, every seat is the best seat in the house.
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Fighting the Weightiness of Metaphors: A Conversation with M. Leona Godin
Dr. M. Leona Godin discusses her new book, THERE PLANT EYES.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Alexis Ivy
“Writing in this way allows me to put order in this disordered world.”
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Acts of Love: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Zauner’s memoir is not a performance, but an act of love, including all the dirty little bits that come with it.
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Steven Espada Dawson, Elisa Gonzalez, and Gaia Rajan.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Calling for a Blanket Dance
An exclusive look at the cover of Oscar Hokeah’s forthcoming novel, CALLING FOR A BLANKET DANCE.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Danny”
Allow her to bewitch you as she bewitches all who cross her path.
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The Benefit of Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Talking with Joshua Henkin
Joshua Henkin discusses his new novel, MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS.
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Both Microscope and Telescope: The Absurd Man by Major Jackson
The Absurd Man is confident and daring with a muscular specificity of language that is both deeply resonant for a wide audience and also singular to the poet.
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Taking Care: A Conversation with Alix Ohlin
Alix Ohlin discusses her new story collection, WE WANT WHAT WE WANT.
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