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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Shapiro

Susan Shapiro discusses her latest novel, What’s Never Said, her Instant Gratification Takes Too Long teaching method, and new anti-dating rules between faculty and students at universities such as Harvard and Yale.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Last Chance out of Jonestown

An addict struggles to forgive himself for the violence he sowed.

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Single Mother

I am not weak; in fact, no single parent has the cabinet space for weakness, or much cabinet space at all, for that matter.

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The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Gerard

Author Sarah Gerard talks about her novel, Binary Star, her chapbook, BFF, dysfunctional relationships, and what it means to be best friends forever.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Queen of Decay

I wish it had been: Amy was a brilliant and tortured artist. Lets explore her brilliance. Let’s watch her perform.

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Redemption Through Story

Antonia Crane writes at The Butter about how addiction and recovery stories saved her: I heard stories exactly like mine from men and women who were nothing like me at all,…

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Long Way Home

Joshua Mohr tackles time, addiction, and invisible dogs over at Lit Hub: I’d love to tell you what happened next with the Rattler, love to tell you some adventure I…

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On Pain

There is pain in the Kentucky mountains. Some people's bodies throb with the ache of repetitive injuries. I am here, they yell to a cloudless sky. Look at me. I am hurting. I am in pain.

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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jill Talbot

The author of The Way We Weren’t talks about why she decided to write about being a single mother, the effect it's had on her daughter, and the adjunct crisis.

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Weekly Geekery

Go, to bed. Now. Facebook begrudgingly cedes that they might not have a PhD in You. Literary non-fiction on the edge of technology… old technology that is. No technology can replace reading out…

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