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The Rumpus Interview with Darcey Steinke

Darcey Steinke talks about her new novel, Sister Golden Hair, motherlessness, the Southern cult of femininity, and how becoming a woman has changed since she came of age in a small city in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Lava Lamp of Pain

Pain moved into my body five years ago. It wasn’t the whack of an anvil or the burn of a scraped knee. This pain sat warmly on the surface of my hands, and reached up to my elbows like evil pink evening gloves.

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The Saturday Rumpus Review of Wild

In simplicity there is truth, and being out in wide open spaces often has a way, like high-speed rail, to bring us back to simple things.

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The Last Book I Loved: Pen & Ink

I was so very tired of being judged and dismissed. The more others pressed their expectations upon me, the more I turned to tattooing to protest.

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The Rumpus Interview with Daisy Hernández

Daisy Hernández talks about her new memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed, feminism, bilingual writing, and working in both the fiction and nonfiction genres.

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Paper Trumpets #15: Puffy Has Something

The images and text on this collage are from an old Christmas book called Baby's First Christmas, a short picture book published in 1983. I took the story text (about 100 words) and re-arranged it into a sort of dada holiday poem.

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Anthony Trollope’s Controversial American Christmas

Trollope cheerfully turned up and enjoyed and a convivial dinner in the company of men who, that very morning, had been deciding whether to go to war with his country.

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Mac and Me

The last time I'd been to my father's grave was the previous winter, for the dedication ceremony for his headstone. The wind gusted, bone-cold, and I didn't stay long. I wondered if Dad brokered a deal with God to make the weather unpleasant just to get back at me.

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