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The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Elkin

Writer and academic Lauren Elkin discusses her latest book Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, the freedoms and constraints of urban space for women, and the power of first person.

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The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Febos

Melissa Febos discusses Abandon Me, confessional writing, Billie Holiday, reenacting trauma, cataloguing narratives, and searching for identity.

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This Week in Essays

Through her work with Doctors Without Borders, Caitlin L. Chandler offers us a glimpse of what life is like on the Syrian border for Guernica. For Real Life magazine, Christopher Schaberg examines the…

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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jason Diamond

Jason Diamond discusses his memoir Searching for John Hughes, confronting his childhood abuse, avoiding his parents, and writing about all of it.

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Otter

The emblem, not the animal, mattered. We swatted mosquitoes, made no pilgrimages to Vermont to see bears and moose. I wanted to get as close as possible to my potential animal totem.

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No Stars

There’s a story I want to tell underneath every other story I’ve ever told.

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Scarecrow

My future grew dimmer. Just moments after computing in my head that I was gay, my mom stomped down the stairs.

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The Rumpus Interview with Micah Perks

Micah Perks talks about her new novel, What Becomes Us, America’s cultural and mythical heritage, and why every novel is a political novel.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jessica Valenti

Jessica Valenti discusses her memoir, Sex Object, how the experiences she touches on in her book shaped her, and how she discovered herself outside of those experiences.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: No Wound

Maybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.

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This Week in Short Fiction

This week at Guernica’s newly re-designed website, author Jean McGarry has a short story, “Come to Me,” about an abusive relationship and the tangled dynamics of power and devotion that…

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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Albert

Laura Albert discusses her alter ego JT LeRoy, Jeff Feuerzeig's documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story, her complicated relationship with her mother, and life as a hustler.

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