Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Gabrielle Bates, I.S. Jones, and Erin Marie Lynch.
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Posts Tagged: american south
Writing Hurricanes and Conjuring Ghosts: A Conversation with J. Nicole Jones
J. Nicole Jones discusses her debut memoir, LOW COUNTRY.
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Exorcising Whiteness: Khalisa Rae’s Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat
Rae presents America as seen through Black girls’ eyes, experienced by our bodies.
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Carrying the Stories of Our Ancestors: A Conversation with Anjali Enjeti
Anjali Enjeti discusses SOUTHBOUND and THE PARTED EARTH.
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On Resilience, Tender Rituals, and Responsible Love: Talking with Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon discusses the revised HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA.
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If My Body Were a House
Where my masculinity dwells, I am in control.
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Asking the Right Questions: Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom becomes an experiment in itself.
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Why We Believe What We Believe: A Conversation with Dantiel W. Moniz
Dantiel W. Moniz discusses her debut story collection, MILK BLOOD HEAT.
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Complicating Unhelpful Binaries: Talking with Deesha Philyaw
Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.
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Freedom Knows Who We Are: Talking with Kelly Harris-DeBerry
Kelly Harris-DeBerry discusses her debut poetry collection, FREEDOM KNOWS MY NAME.
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Out of What Remains: Talking with Jacinta V. White
Jacinta V. White discusses her collection of poetry, RESURRECTING THE BONES.
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Does It Matter Why
I refuse to play the part, but I play the part.
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Identity as a Hall of Mirrors: Descent by Lauren Russell
This book is a marriage of the real world and the imagination, the nexus of nonfiction and fiction.
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The Privilege of Anxiety: Mark O’Connell’s Notes from an Apocalypse
What does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?
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Gospel That Kicks Up the Dust: Neck of the Woods by Amy Woolard
Tenderness lies between the sharp and the sweet.
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Queering the Southern Gothic: A Conversation with Genevieve Hudson
Genevieve Hudson discusses her debut novel, BOYS OF ALABAMA.
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Masters of Movement: A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #226: Benjamin Nugent
“I’m interested in beautiful events that are wrong.”
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Lingering on Darkness: Sleepovers by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
When Ashleigh Bryant Phillips lets loose, she can shock.
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Queer, Magicked Reality: A Conversation with JD Scott
JD Scott discusses their new story collection, MOONFLOWER, NIGHTSHADE, ALL THE HOURS OF THE DAY.
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Bodies Are Not Metaphors: Talking with Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett discusses her second novel, THE VANISHING HALF.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Howard County Rapture
It was a Friday morning at 9:34 a.m. when the Rapture occurred.
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Moral Fiction: Talking with Brandon Taylor
Brandon Taylor discusses his debut novel, REAL LIFE.
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Breaking Out of Likability: A Conversation with Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh discusses her new book, STOP TELLING WOMEN TO SMILE.
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Praise the Bottom: A Conversation with Malcolm Tariq
Malcolm Tariq discusses his debut poetry collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Malcolm Tariq
Malcolm Tariq discusses his debut collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
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Grounded by Circumstance: Tina Barr’s Green Target
Barr is an astonishing image-maker, adept in creating significance through anthimeria.
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We’re All Fighting: A Conversation with Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones discusses his new memoir, HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES.
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Attracted to the Dark: A Conversation with Emily W. Pease
Emily W. Pease discusses her debut story collection, LET ME OUT HERE.
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Why I Chose Malcolm Tariq’s Heed the Hollow for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
What we’re reading in our Poetry Book Club next month!
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