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Who You Would Be at the End of the World: a Conversation with Dave Housley
“[T]his process of building and connecting stories together into a larger work… You can start off with one version that you send out to lit mags, and then you can design another version that connects to a larger world. You…
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The Place That Keeps Calling You Back: A Conversation with Douglas Stuart
“All my work has been about the cost of belonging, because I find that the price of belonging is conformity. Especially as someone from a working-class background who was raised to always think of the “we” and never the “I,”…
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A Conversation between Rachel Khong and Emma Copley Eisenberg
“A story can change your day; it can give a different texture to it, like music can. I love precision and brevity in writing, and the best stories come in the smallest packages. I think of stories more like songs–more…
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Five Poems
I am the Holy Ghost! You are Entangled! Mostly embarrassed of my dead father,I was below the fig,looking up, open-mouthed,following the bees feastingthe fruit to ruin, slogging through the funk lifting from the floorfrom what had fallen; it was the…
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Someone Else Will Save Us: A Conversation with Kim Fu
“ It is difficult and overwhelming to think about what’s happening to the whole world at scale and the forces that are at play. But telling the story of one person and the points at which they are interacting with…
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The Part That Hurts
She had been a good friend when she had to be, and somewhere in all of this time we’d forgotten how to speak to one another. Now, she has come to me in this early stage of grief. I wasn’t…
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The Pride 30
At The Rumpus we pride ourselves (ha!) on celebrating queer voices year-round. Genuine inclusion has always been a guiding principle for this magazine and Debbie and I are proud to continue publishing in that tradition. In recent years, younger people…
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Parasocial Connection & Dinner As Organizing Principle: A Conversation with Krys Malcolm Belc
“There was the loneliness of losing in-person socializing at work [during the early days of the pandemic]. And then when I was sent home–because I was not an “essential worker” at my job… there was a screen now, between me…
