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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod

“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”

The brutality of frat culture, Nugent suggests, is a veneer that hardly masks its devotees’ miseries and insecurities.

I cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.

I wasn’t pressured to be stoic. I was permitted to release. I was permitted to be.

“In the act of writing about it and revising it, I’m still having the experience.”

“Yes: in terms of an authorial presence, I tried to tread lightly.”

“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”

She introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.

Teresa Carmody discusses her debut novel, THE RECONCEPTION OF MARIE.

There was a right way and a wrong way to do things, and those shoes were wrong.

Sarah Kasbeer discusses her debut essay collection, A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN.

All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.