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A void that migrates to the surface: An Interview with Juliet Patterson

That was my singular personal motivation for doing any of this work: to prevent the threat that this might happen to me. I naïvely believed that my parents would not die by their own hand because they had suffered as children of parents who had already died that way.

To Write the Way We Live: A Conversation with Jonathan Escoffery

I see myself as a story writer, and that's just the best thing ever.

Glimpses of Peace Only in Dreams: Andrey Kurkov’s Grey Bees

There’s a war on, and Sergey Sergeyich is worried about his bees.

Knowledge alters things forever: A conversation with Anuradha Roy

. . . it was clear in my head that the dog in the book would not die, that he would bring people together, and also function as a kind of barometer for good and evil because, in my experience, that is how dogs are.

A Collection of Hours: Look Here by Ana Kinsella

Reading about flânerie is a “useful” thing for me to do: useful for my career, for my scholarly ambitions. Actually partaking in flânerie is rarely useful in these ways

The Dream Does What It Wants: Talking with David Santos Donaldson

. . . I advise any fiction writer who can afford it, to an get a Jungian analyst . . .

What to Read When You Wish You Were Heading Back-to-School

The Rumpus editors put together a list of books for Virgo season

“I Was Born to This Poetry”: The Book of Mirrors by Yun Wang

I hear the gossip of flowers / insatiable in their lust / Consider the cages that are our bodies

We Should Be Embarrassed by Most Things: An Interview with Leyna Krow

I think that is the dream—to have such a strong voice that people know your work as your work.

Under My Kilt

It’s heavier than I thought it would be, and stiffer. The cotton drill fabric has the feel of an army jacket. The snaps and clasps and buckles have a certain…

I Am No One’s Graveyard: An Interview With No‘u Revilla

Sometimes a poem is a rock, and sometimes rocks turn into flowers. And no matter how many poems I write about aloha and decolonial futures, they may still try to kill me

Sketch Book Reviews: Birds and Us by Tim Birkhead

THE BIRDS AND US, written by Tim Birkhead and released August 2022 from Princeton Review Press, is atheist perfect mix of history, narrative, and science with a dash of cool illustrations. Throughout the book, readers will learn about everything from bird cave paintings, to birdwatching, and everything in between.

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