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Grab Hold the Rope of Language: A Conversation with Jan Beatty

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • September 10, 2021
Jan Beatty discusses her new memoir, AMERICAN BASTARD.
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To Set Asunder: The Separation and Synthesis of Tiana Nobile’s Cleave

  • Stacey Balkun
  • June 18, 2021
A word becomes a reckoning, a reconciling of contradiction.
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Playing House: A Conversation with Megan Culhane Galbraith

  • Jacqueline Alnes
  • May 21, 2021
Megan Culhane Galbraith discusses her debut book, THE GUILD OF THE INFANT SAVIOUR.
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So That We May Move Forward: A Conversation with Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • November 13, 2020
Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello discusses her debut poetry collection, HOUR OF THE OX.
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Writing as Construction of the Self: Talking with Matthew Salesses

  • Megan Culhane Galbraith
  • September 21, 2020
Matthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Mary-Kim Arnold

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • April 28, 2020
Mary-Kim Arnold discusses her new poetry collection, THE FISH & THE DOVE.
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The Fraught Business of Identity: Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know

  • Chelsea Leu
  • November 14, 2018
All You Can Ever Know insists that the stories we use to understand ourselves should be allowed as much complexity as the truth dictates.
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Re-Thinking Adoption: A Conversation with Nicole Chung

  • Crystal Hana Kim
  • November 7, 2018
Nicole Chung discusses her debut memoir, ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Nicole Chung

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  • October 24, 2018
Nicole Chung discusses ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Mary-Kim Arnold

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • April 18, 2018
Mary-Kim Arnold discusses her debut book, Litany for the Long Moment, exploring adoption through a feminist lens, and dancing on the line between genres.
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The Rumpus Three-Way Interview: An Incomplete Catharsis

  • Matthew Salesses
  • September 7, 2015
Carmiel Banasky, Alexandra Kleeman, and Matthew Salesses on their new novels, writing from a place of tension, and how our writing changes as we do.
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