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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Andrea Jarrell

  • Lia Woodall
  • April 10, 2018
I didn’t want to be edited in that way. I needed to tell my story.
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Voices on Addiction: Need and Smoke

  • Sonya Huber
  • March 26, 2018
Need had carved out specific contours in my personality, and then it returned like a curse to fit in those spaces.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #126: Christopher Zeischegg

  • Antonia Crane
  • March 8, 2018
"Being thrust into forced ritualistic closeness does break the ice, but doesn’t guarantee closeness."
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Everybody Is Fine: Talking with Jasmine Guillory

  • Lyz Lenz
  • February 28, 2018
Jasmine Guillory discusses her debut novel, The Wedding Date, finding success, writing sex, and the revolutionary act of eating.
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Guns or No Guns: Mental Health Crisis in Schools

  • Genevieve Anna Tyrrell
  • February 26, 2018
I do the best I can to reach out to those I see isolated or disturbed, but I have to also be careful I don’t make myself a target.
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This Is What I Get for Wanting

  • Jenni Miller
  • February 14, 2018
When I cried over the phone, asking him if he was dumping me, he said in his gentle voice, “Sweetheart, we weren’t really a thing yet.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #122: Nathan Hill

  • Jon Kaleugher
  • February 8, 2018
"Write what you want to write, he said, and let other people deal with taxonomies."
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After the Telling

  • Cindy House
  • January 16, 2018
We want to protect our children from everything, even sometimes ourselves.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Three Excerpts from AFTERWORDS

  • The Rumpus
  • January 2, 2018
Three exclusive excerpts from …AFTERWORDS, a new series of distinctive commentaries on great works of contemporary literature from our friends at Fiction Advocate!
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Voices on Addiction: Self-Portrait

  • Emily Arnason Casey
  • November 20, 2017
Mother should have told me that booze made a kind of heaven in my body, I thought the first time I felt it.
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Both Companion and Guide: Jeannine Hall Gailey’s Field Guide to the End of the World

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • September 29, 2017
I recommend you pull over now. Better yet, I recommend you call in sick and turn your car around. You’re going to want to read this book in one solitary burst...
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I Will Not Die for You

  • Kristine Langley Mahler
  • September 20, 2017
Each bug in the water is one less bug on my fruit, I tell myself, ignoring the truth: under the soil, another is born.
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