Features & Reviews
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A Deeply Human Act: Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
What is so extraordinary about this collection is its lyricism, its humanity, and its urgency.
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There Is No Break: A Conversation with Nicole Homer
Poet Nicole Homer discusses her debut collection, Pecking Order, writing motherhood from many angles, and the importance of representation in the media.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview #105: Miranda Pennington
In between book launch events, Miranda Pennington found time to discuss her bibliomemoir and more.
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Congratulations to the 2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant Recipients!
The Whiting Foundation’s Creative Nonfiction Grant is in its second year and seeks to acknowledge the creation of exemplary works of nonfiction.
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Nothing Foreign about It: Talking with Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad discusses his debut novel American War, suicide terrorism, fossil fuels, and blankets.
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An Investigation into Fate and Freedom: Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
Everyone, no matter how strong or independent, is subject to forces like war, or time, or the claims of family.
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Reclaiming the Identity of the Witch: A Conversation with Katy Horan
Katy Horan discusses Literary Witches, which she illustrated and worked on in collaboration with writer Taisia Kitaiskaia, out tomorrow from Seal Press.
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What to Read When You Are a Nasty Woman
A list from Kate Harding and Samhita Mukhopadhyay to celebrate the release of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America.
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Reclamation and Redemption: Villain Songs by Tammy Robacker
Robacker’s language, steeped in religion and myth, creates an avenue for her own salvation while invoking a timelessness that gives voice to all whose song has been suppressed.
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The Woman Behind the Curtain Pulling the Levers: Talking with Zinzi Clemmons
Zinzi Clemmons on What We Lose, representations of blackness, and life’s influences on writing.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #104: sam sax
I could write a bullet list of sam’s sax’s recent accomplishments, but the wiser thing would be to advise you to pick up his newly released book MADNESS.
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Death, Satan, and Cats: A Conversation with Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine discusses his newest novel, The Angel of History, surviving the AIDS epidemic, and the role of religion in his life and writing.