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September Spotlight: Letters in the Mail

  • The Rumpus
  • August 11, 2022
Chatting with some of September's Letters in the Mail featured authors about books and birds.
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Life as a Series of Small Gestures: Talking with Jennifer Fliss

  • Ruth LeFaive
  • December 15, 2021
Jennifer Fliss discusses her debut story collection, THE PREDATORY ANIMAL BALL.
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Pine Street

  • Amanda Oliver
  • October 7, 2021
Did you see an animal? Did you see a bird? What did you see when you looked at me?
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Lamentation for Songbirds

  • Lindsey Trout Hughes
  • September 30, 2021
If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
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A Language for Extinction: Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds

  • Aiya Sakr
  • January 22, 2021
And if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Overlook

  • Ashley Lopez
  • November 25, 2020
To be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
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Too Bright to Belong: A Conversation with Clare Beams

  • Holly M. Wendt
  • February 7, 2020
Clare Beams discusses her debut novel, THE ILLNESS LESSON.
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Portals

  • Elizabeth Bevilacqua
  • May 2, 2019
Portals, as my aunt calls them, are like rings of time orbiting one another.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Flap

  • Marlin M. Jenkins
  • December 26, 2018
A flap to determine entry, or deny it. A flap whose failure determines choking.
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Sweet Bird

  • Lesley Jenike
  • November 29, 2018
Every story needs to begin in a place of stasis, a comfortable zero.
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R.I.P.: Baby Bird

  • Lee Matalone
  • November 20, 2018
So much land, so much quiet.
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Making a Nest within a Book: Kevin McLellan’s Ornitheology

  • Julie Marie Wade
  • October 12, 2018
In my reading, Ornitheology turns out to be a book of psalms.
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