How to Watch While Being Watched: Aisha Sabatini Sloan’s Borealis
The experience, rather than linear, is borealian.
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Stained with Autobiography: Talking with Christopher Gonzalez
Christopher Gonzalez discusses his debut story collection, I’M NOT HUNGRY BUT I COULD EAT.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Derrick Austin
Derrick Austin discusses his new poetry collection, TENDERNESS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson discusses her new book, ON FREEDOM: FOUR SONGS OF CARE AND CONSTRAINT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Alexis Ivy
“Writing in this way allows me to put order in this disordered world.”
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Steven Espada Dawson, Elisa Gonzalez, and Gaia Rajan.
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The More Painful Absence: Keema Waterfield’s Inside Passage
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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Trust in Action: Talking with the Editors of Fat and Queer
Co-editors Bruce Owens Grimm, Miguel M. Morales, and Tiff Joshua TJ Ferentini discuss FAT AND QUEER.
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Wired for Wordplay: A Conversation with Kelli Russell Agodon
Kelli Russell Agodon discusses her new collection, DIALOGUES WITH RISING TIDES.
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A Love That Leaves Scars: With Teeth by Kristen Arnett
Reading Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth is like taking an afternoon drive down the I-4 of my memory.
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Desire for Depth and Closeness: Talking with Laurel Nakanishi
Laurel Nakanishi discusses her debut poetry collection, ASHORE.
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Digital Space Is Real Space: Talking with A.E. Osworth
A.E. Osworth discusses their debut novel, WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Adrienne Christian
Adrienne Christian discusses her newest collection, WORN.
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All That Connection: A Conversation with Roberto Carlos Garcia
Roberto Carlos Garcia discusses his third poetry collection, [ELEGIES].
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On Resilience, Tender Rituals, and Responsible Love: Talking with Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon discusses the revised HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA.
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I’m Cold, Please Touch Me: The Freezer Door by Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Sycamore wrote this book long before pandemic time, and yet it couldn’t have arrived at a better moment.
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Belonging Is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton
Georgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.
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Stitching the Sea Together: A Conversation with Kathryn Smith
Kathryn Smith discusses her new poetry collection, SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CEPHALOPOD.
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Agency Over Anything Else: Talking with Elle Nash
Elle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
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Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney
Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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Upending the Scene: A Conversation with Te-Ping Chen
Te-Ping Chen discusses her debut story collection, LAND OF BIG NUMBERS.
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Writing for a Trans Audience: Talking with Torrey Peters
Torrey Peters discusses her debut novel, DETRANSITION, BABY.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses her new book, THE FREEZER DOOR.
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We’re All Difficult Women Now: Talking with Avni Doshi
Avni Doshi discusses her debut novel, BURNT SUGAR.
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Swinging Modern Sounds: Observations on the Occasion of a 100th Column
The clash of opinions about music is music itself.
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The Complex Disability Representation We Need: Rebekah Taussig’s Sitting Pretty
What Taussig does, then, is ground these ideas in reality through her own lived experiences.
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Wistful Intimacies: Homie by Danez Smith
Could I be one of Smith’s homies? I would like to be.
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Where Words Often Fail: Talking with Bryan Washington
Bryan Washington discusses his new novel, MEMORIAL.
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