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Off the Interstate, into Real Experience: Talking with Erica Trabold

  • Jenny Boully
  • November 9, 2018
Erica Trabold discusses her debut essay collection, FIVE PLOTS.
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ENOUGH: You Are Not Forgiven

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  • October 16, 2018
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Perfect Childhood

  • Pia Ghosh-Roy
  • August 30, 2018
Even when these questions are not articulated, they’re there.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #147: Saadia Faruqi

  • Julie Vick
  • August 23, 2018
“If you can’t really tell the whole story in five thousand words, are you really a writer?”
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Sharp and Twisty and Complicated: Talking with Melanie Abrams

  • Eric Longfellow
  • August 17, 2018
Melanie Abrams discusses her debut novel, PLAYING, and a forthcoming novel, MEADOWLARK.
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Inborn Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact

  • Naseem Jamnia
  • August 1, 2018
Maybe you were whistling before you could talk, too.
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Songs of Our Lives: “Off to War”

  • Kelly Fig Smith
  • July 26, 2018
This is fault-line music, dangerous in an unassuming way.
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The Quiet of a Ghost: Talking with Ingrid Rojas Contreras

  • Bradley Sides
  • July 25, 2018
Ingrid Rojas Contreras discusses her debut novel, FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE.
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Pulling the Thread Through: Talking with Tina Alexis Allen

  • Iva-Marie Palmer
  • July 13, 2018
Tina Alexis Allen discusses her memoir, HIDING OUT.
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ENOUGH: Skeleton Key

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  • June 12, 2018
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Voices on Addiction: Spontaneous Combustion

  • Eaton Hamilton
  • May 24, 2018
I remember hunger the way other children remember love.
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I Can’t Shake the Guru Bhagwan

  • Ronit Feinglass Plank
  • May 19, 2018
In 1979, my mother decided she wanted to join Bhagwan’s ashram in Pune, India.
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