Voices on Addiction: Primary Source
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Posts Tagged: death
A Cave of Catharsis: Code by Charlotte Pence
Grief sneaks up on you, and so does this book.
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Resistance Against Erasure: Talking with Marianne Chan
Marianne Chan discusses her debut poetry collection, ALL HEATHENS.
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Losing the World
When we begin life, language is play.
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Permadeath
All your efforts and still you must reckon with this end.
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Flesh and Blood: A Conversation with Oksana Zabuzhko
Oksana Zabuzhko discusses her story collection, YOUR AD COULD GO HERE.
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Variants of Unknown Significance
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Wild Animals
I searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #217: Sue William Silverman
“Our memories are always in flux.”
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Voices on Addiction: Call Us Beautiful
I’m saying people can be imperfect and still be remembered as beautiful.
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Love and Loss in the Time of Pandemics: Talking with Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
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Everything Is Alive: Dunce by Mary Ruefle
Ruefle’s memories are as alive as the bodies holding them.
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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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It’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life
My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
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A Vocabulary for Apostates
I needed to reshape the definitions of words that were used against me.
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What It Means to Be a Human: Talking with Maggie Downs
Maggie Downs discusses her debut memoir, BRAVER THAN YOU THINK.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #215: Traci Brimhall
“Everything in my life is basically a scribble.”
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Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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Inhabitation and Invocation: Candice Wuehle’s Death Industrial Complex
The speaker must believe in transience, in shapeshifting without permission.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #212: Mark Bibbins
“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
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Keeping Time in Los Angeles
Music was noise, and noise was music, and George Antheil was on his way.
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Too Close to Home
I can’t relax. Bullets are on my mind.
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Father Time Is Undefeated
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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Between Illusion and Reality: A Conversation with Erin Pringle
Erin Pringle discusses her debut novel, HEZADA! I MISS YOU.
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How We Write the Dead: A Conversation with Vikram Paralkar
Vikram Paralkar discusses his debut novel, NIGHT THEATER.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #205: Beth Alvarado
“For me, when I write nonfiction, my mind moves from the outside to the inside.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “We Were Alive”
They say she bathed in our blood.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Ojalá
There is an irony that sometimes rings Mona like a bell.
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