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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Forsyth Harmon

  • Sarah Perry
  • March 4, 2021
“Yes: in terms of an authorial presence, I tried to tread lightly.”
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A Different Kind of Butterfly Effect: Frances Cha’s If I Had Your Face

  • Christine Ma-Kellams
  • December 9, 2020
[Y]ou can’t grow up in a cultural milieu and be immune to what it loves.
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Comb or Brush? An Immigrant’s Knotty Dilemma

  • Anu Kandikuppa
  • November 19, 2020
I was curious. What was the origin of the comb versus brush divide?
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Divestment

  • Magin LaSov Gregg
  • October 20, 2020
Secrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
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Writing What Bothers: A Conversation with Frances Cha

  • Violet Haeun Kim
  • September 3, 2020
Frances Cha discusses her debut novel, IF I HAD YOUR FACE.
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Milked

  • Veena Dinavahi
  • August 4, 2020
I mourn for my body, for the toll the world has taken on it.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”

  • Alden Jones
  • July 13, 2020
I’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.
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Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned

  • M Jaime Zuckerman
  • July 10, 2020
In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
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Body Inheritance

  • Anna Held
  • June 23, 2020
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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We Will Not Be Contained: Pretty Bitches and Too Much

  • Sara Petersen
  • March 18, 2020
There will always be another word used against us.
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Living to Survive: Bodega by Su Hwang

  • Emily Kim
  • March 6, 2020
Bodega is one of the most experimental and ambitious projects that I have encountered.
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Time Is Money: Porn Carnival by Rachel Rabbit White

  • Shy Watson
  • February 28, 2020
This isn’t a book about loss; rather, it’s a book about sheer willpower and intentionality.
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