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Civil Rights Movement

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On Relic and Recovery: A Conversation with Kimiko Hahn

  • Mackenzie Singh
  • November 9, 2020
Poet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
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Hybrid by Nature: A Conversation with Tara Campbell

  • Hannah Grieco
  • July 29, 2020
Tara Campbell discusses her new book, POLITICAL AF: A RAGE COLLECTION.
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What We Inherit: Talking with Chanelle Benz

  • Crystal Hana Kim
  • June 24, 2019
Chanelle Benz discusses her debut novel, THE GONE DEAD.
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The Causality Runs Both Ways: A Conversation with Joshua Clover

  • Jack Chelgren
  • January 1, 2018
Joshua Clover discusses his book Riot.Strike.Riot, mediating between individual agency and structural determination, and finding hope in student action.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Faith Adiele

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • September 20, 2017
Faith Adiele discusses what it means to be a good literary citizen, the importance of decolonizing travel writing, and how she wants to change the way Black stories are being told.
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The Rumpus Saturday Essay: The Savage Mind, Pt. 3

  • David Treuer
  • April 15, 2017
To deny violence is to do it. Our surprise at Sandy Hook and Cold Springs and Columbine is a form of violence in its own right.
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The Rumpus Interview with Terry McDonell

  • Ryan Krull
  • December 9, 2016
Terry McDonell talks about his new memoir The Accidental Life and his career in the magazine business, which spans the beginning of New Journalism through the digital revolution.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #11: Politics, Madness, and Sanity

  • Charles Kruger
  • December 2, 2016
My family was always political, but I have a love/hate relationship with politics. Today, I can feel the country swinging towards madness. And make no mistake, a country can go…
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The Night Wash Jones Won

  • Christian Douglass
  • November 17, 2016
Eighty years ago, Wash Jones appeared as a minor character in William Faulkner’s masterpiece on American identity and self-invention, Absalom, Absalom! From a craft perspective Jones was put in for…
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Dedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Kathryn Stripling Byer

  • Kathryn Stripling Byer
  • November 7, 2016
I reached out to her, and she reached back. A hug I’ll never forget.
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The Conversation: Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib and Paul Tran

  • The Conversation
  • March 28, 2016
The sitting down to write, convincing myself that my voice matters, even though there are so many telling me that it doesn’t.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Desiree Cooper

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • March 25, 2016
Desiree Cooper discusses her debut collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, what mother-writers need, and why motherhood is the only story she’s ever told.
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