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Say Everything: The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

Truth is complicated, thorny, and often paradoxical. Marzano-Lesnevich advocates for a version of events that doesn’t attempt to simplify its subjects, that doesn’t reduce human life to weak metaphors.

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Reality Scooped: Talking with Tony Tulathimutte

Recent Whiting Award winner Tony Tulathimutte discusses his first novel, Private Citizens, the state of satire in 2017, “booby-trapping” identity politics, and productivity in the Internet age.

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What to Read When Everyone Is Celebrating Dads

Whether you are celebrating your father or cursing his name this Father's Day, here's a list of very good books about fathers from writers we love.

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Earnest, Funny, and Fun: Chen Chen’s When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities

What makes Chen’s poetry so exhilarating is that these poems always have a center of gravity—the self—that keeps the many subjects they explore in orbit.

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Literary Rim Shots: A Chat with John Grisham

John Grisham discusses his advice for young writers, the literary mafia, and why he finally wrote a (literal) beach read.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #88: Sarah Gerard

Sarah Gerard’s dazzling second book, Sunshine State, is a collection of essays interlacing narrative nonfiction and personal essay. The thirty-one year old Brooklynite teaches nonfiction and writes a monthly column…

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Embrace the Physical World: Touch by Courtney Maum

Touch is a compelling argument that we should embrace the physical world, genuine human connections, and reject the technology that comes between us and other people.

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Reading Colum McCann to My Daughter

I think we need to listen closer for the stories that shake us up the most ... and then share them and talk about them with the people we love. And the people we don’t.

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Ambiguity as a Daily Experience: Talking with Jess Arndt

Jess Arndt discusses her debut story collection Large Animals, accepting love from other people, human bodies, and fear of the written word.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Nikki Wallschlaeger

Nikki Wallschlaeger discusses her new collection Crawlspace, why she chose to work with the sonnet form, and how segregation in American never ended.

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Unbridled Power in All Its Majestic Terror: Will Bardenwerper’s The Prisoner in His Palace

As we begin our own Age of the Strongman, Hussein’s almost effortless manipulation—of soldiers expecting exactly that behavior—shows how susceptible we all might be to the sheer force of a big personality.

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Saying What Shouldn’t Be Said: A Conversation with Julie Buntin

Julie Buntin discusses her debut novel, Marlena, why writing about teenage girls is the most serious thing in the world, and finding truths in fiction.

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