Rumpus Original Fiction: Daddies and Sons
When Jeb was old enough to have a family of his own, he hardly ever laid hands on his boys.
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The Climate of Feeling: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk
Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
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Endless Preparation: Apples and Women’s Work
It makes sense to me that Johnny Appleseed, a man, would travel God’s earth spreading his profligate seed. And then women are doomed to their lives trying to make that seed into something useful.
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For Catapult, Kashana Cauley writes on the divide between feminist action and feminist discourse, and the deep class divisions that shape each permutation of feminism.
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The Rumpus Interview with Robyn Schiff
Robyn Schiff talks about her collection A Woman of Property, the long con of “owning” land, her passion for early novels, how motherhood changed her poetry, and the generative powers of form.
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