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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #78: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

In 2016, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s writing won the Narrative Poetry Contest. Bertram’s work is formally and thematically expansive and this sampling, called “Facts About Deer and Other Poems,” showcases her incredible…

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Celebrating Failures in Nell Stevens’s Bleaker House

Who has time for Writer Problems in the midst of all these PROBLEMS?

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Febos

Melissa Febos discusses her new book Abandon Me, choosing to be celibate for six months, letting go of our own mythologies, and the sexist reaction women receive when they write nonfiction.

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Personal, Political, and Poetic: A Conversation with Susan Briante

Susan Briante discusses The Market Wonders, her newest collection of poetry in which she draws on market indicators like the Dow Jones Industrial Average to construct a criticism of contemporary culture.

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Science Is Sexy in There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You

In the first story of this collection, a girl learns the shocking truth that the world is made of atoms, that “when you get right down to it, it’s all just studs and holes.”

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This Week in Books: Dear Sweet Filthy World

Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and…

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Ariel Levy’s Queer Generation

The playful sense of shifting identity applies to feminists, to writers, to anyone who chooses to believe we can reinvent ourselves.

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Storytelling Is a Search: An Interview with Sequoia Nagamatsu

Sequoia Nagamatsu discusses his debut collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone, grief as a character, and the intersection of ancient myth and the modern world.

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What to Read When Your Government Is Embroiled in Scandal

As we wait for the total collapse of this leaning tower of garbage, a few books to prepare ourselves for what comes next.

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Going Beneath the Scarred Exterior in She May Be a Saint

Nichols wants us to know that, like every woman scorned, whether by an individual or by society, her maenad was initially innocent and loving. Beneath a scarred exterior, that innocent still resides.

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