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...moreIn particular, Graff’s river is numinous. It’s the center of everything.
...moreAllow her to bewitch you as she bewitches all who cross her path.
...moreNineteen is a book that’s by turns smart, sad, and scathing.
...moreEmilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreBy the end of the collection, Febos has managed to rewrite or erase entirely many parts of the patriarchal script that held her bound.
...moreIn this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.
...moreHe could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
...moreThere was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
...moreThe babysitters inspired me, and Kristy’s entrepreneurial vision seemed plain yet elegant; easy-to-follow, too.
...moreRobert L. Shuster discusses his debut novel, TO ZENZI.
...more“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”
...moreThe brutality of frat culture, Nugent suggests, is a veneer that hardly masks its devotees’ miseries and insecurities.
...moreI cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.
...moreI wasn’t pressured to be stoic. I was permitted to release. I was permitted to be.
...more“In the act of writing about it and revising it, I’m still having the experience.”
...more“Yes: in terms of an authorial presence, I tried to tread lightly.”
...more“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
...moreShe introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
...moreTeresa Carmody discusses her debut novel, THE RECONCEPTION OF MARIE.
...moreThere was a right way and a wrong way to do things, and those shoes were wrong.
...moreSarah Kasbeer discusses her debut essay collection, A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN.
...moreAll anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
...moreA block away from my house, Reina killed herself.
...moreEnzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
...moreThe moment presented itself at dusk the following day.
...moreGenevieve Hudson discusses her debut novel, BOYS OF ALABAMA.
...more“You are so sexy,” he said. I met his gaze. And the warning bell rang.
...moreLight reflects differently off near and faraway objects. It’s all about the light.
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