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From the Archives: Voices on Addiction: None of This Is Bullshit

  • Sheree L. Greer
  • January 27, 2023
I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.
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From the Archive: Unbound

  • Lauren Kayes
  • January 18, 2022
It’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.
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Voices on Addiction: Family Tree

  • Kristin Gourlay
  • March 9, 2021
The toll I took on people I love can’t be measured. But I want to know.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Kristi Coulter

  • Sonya Lea
  • October 4, 2018
This world doesn’t have to like me. But it does have to reckon with me, with my humanity.
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Building the Muscle: A Conversation with Kristi Coulter

  • Melissa Batchelor Warnke
  • August 20, 2018
Kristi Coulter discusses her debut essay collection, NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM THIS.
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What to Read When You Are a Nasty Woman

  • The Rumpus
  • October 6, 2017
A list from Kate Harding and Samhita Mukhopadhyay to celebrate the release of Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America.
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What to Read When You Need More Anne Shirley in Your Life

  • The Rumpus
  • May 12, 2017
Today, the new series Anne with an E premieres on Netflix. Here's a list of books for times when you need a strong female protagonist like Anne Shirley.
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On Playing Games, Productivity, and Right Livelihood

  • Janet Frishberg
  • May 19, 2016
One week last spring I said it out loud for the first time: “Sometimes I play so long, my fingers go numb.”
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup

  • Max Gray
  • June 29, 2015
First, Brandon Hicks takes an illustrative look at a few hypothetical situations. And in the Saturday interview, Anna March talks with Salon editor and author Sarah Hepola about alcoholism and the distorted…
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Sarah Hepola

  • Anna March
  • June 27, 2015
Editor and writer Sarah Hepola talks about her new memoir Blackout, how gender affects alcoholism, writing about female friendships, and the writers who've influenced her.
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Blackout by Sarah Hepola

  • Graham Oliver
  • June 18, 2015
Graham Oliver reviews Blackout by Sarah Hepola today in Rumpus Books.
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But Not for Long

  • James Langlois
  • October 10, 2009
Michelle Wildgen’s second novel traces the residents of a sustainable-food co-op through crises, adjustments, and reinventions.
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