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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod

  • Rebecca van Laer
  • April 29, 2021
“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”
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Nowhere to Go but Deeper into the Self: Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts

  • Ella Fox-Martens
  • March 31, 2021
Who said great literature has to make the reader feel good?
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Cooped

  • Natalie Ponte
  • February 22, 2021
I picture anxiety as an arrow. I picture it as a mallet.
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Sleeping with Myself

  • Eve Ettinger
  • February 2, 2021
I exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.
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Cure

  • Wendy Elizabeth Wallace
  • January 26, 2021
For nearly half of my life now, I’ve been living with limited vision.
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Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam

  • Josh English
  • January 20, 2021
But Griner is too skilled a realist to allow The Book of Otto and Liam to become a simple revenge story.
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Finding Firm Ground: A Conversation with Nadia Owusu

  • Donna Hemans
  • January 13, 2021
Nadia Owusu discusses her debut memoir, AFTERSHOCKS.
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Some of the Places I Am Stuck

  • Cameron Gorman
  • January 12, 2021
I lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”

  • Jessica Lind Peterson
  • January 11, 2021
There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
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Making It Through: A Conversation with Kelly J. Baker

  • Sarah Boon
  • December 30, 2020
Kelly J. Baker discusses her new essay collection, FINAL GIRL.
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Winter Baby

  • Marissa Landrigan
  • December 21, 2020
Something new in the dead darkness. Short days and shimmers of light.
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Embracing the Grotesque: Talking with Lisa Hanawalt

  • DW McKinney
  • November 20, 2020
Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new book, I WANT YOU.
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