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Acts of Love: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

  • Darcy Jay Gagnon
  • August 25, 2021
Zauner’s memoir is not a performance, but an act of love, including all the dirty little bits that come with it.
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The More Painful Absence: Keema Waterfield’s Inside Passage

  • Ronit Feinglass Plank
  • August 18, 2021
In this lush and raw account, musicians play, voices harmonize and then separate again, town after Alaska town rolls by... and Waterfield searches for home.
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ENOUGH: Beauty in Bruising

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  • August 17, 2021
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Inner Conversations Projected on a Surface: Bruno K. Öijer’s The Trilogy

  • Naheed Patel
  • August 13, 2021
A family’s grief traps generations in a search for insight.
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ENOUGH: Encumber (A Brief History)

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  • August 3, 2021
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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My Grandfather’s Laugh Is like Thread

  • Wendie Yeung
  • July 27, 2021
Is he there? Does he hear? Does he understand?
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Spotlight: “Their House”

  • Kit Anderson
  • July 20, 2021
Hey! It’s been a while, huh?
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Voices on Addiction: Safety in a Blue Light

  • Charles G. Thompson
  • July 13, 2021
Television babysat our family—our thirteen-channel set, reception via a rooftop antenna.
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This Is Not a Metaphor

  • Kristen Millares Young
  • July 7, 2021
On the far side of silence, I suspect, is joy.
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That’s the Metaphor: A Conversation with Kendra Allen

  • Nabila Lovelace
  • July 7, 2021
Kendra Allen discusses her debut poetry collection, THE COLLECTION PLATE.
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How Beautiful and Rough: A Conversation with Ashley C. Ford

  • Eve Ettinger
  • July 1, 2021
Ashley C. Ford discusses her debut memoir, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
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To Set Asunder: The Separation and Synthesis of Tiana Nobile’s Cleave

  • Stacey Balkun
  • June 18, 2021
A word becomes a reckoning, a reconciling of contradiction.
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