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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Andrés Cerpa

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • June 29, 2021
Andrés Cerpa discusses his new collection, THE VAULT.
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The Mentor Series: Leslie Jamison and Elizabeth McCracken

  • Leslie Jamison
  • September 23, 2019
Leslie Jamison interviews her mentor, Elizabeth McCracken.
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Thrown Off Balance: Talking with Malinda McCollum

  • Christine Sneed
  • July 9, 2018
Malinda McCollum discusses her debut story collection, THE SURPRISING PLACE.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Nikki Wallschlaeger

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • June 13, 2017
Nikki Wallschlaeger discusses her new collection Crawlspace, why she chose to work with the sonnet form, and how segregation in American never ended.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 12, 2016
Texas book publisher Deep Vellum Books has found a partner to keep the publisher’s bookstore operational and now plans a grand opening for the store, a year after soft opening.…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Tess Taylor

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • April 26, 2016
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tess Taylor about her new collection Work & Days, manual labor, and the lyric possibilities in small fields.
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The Hole in the Fence at the End of N 7th

  • M.C. Mah
  • January 8, 2015
I only know one parlor game and it is looking around at young people, feeling deeply in-the-know about their being in endless, pointless distress over insufficiently expressing themselves.
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Hilton Als

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 24, 2013
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Hilton Als about his new collection White Girls, an intriguing amalgam of fiction, essay, and memoir.
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Girls in the Grass

  • Angela Sebastian
  • November 21, 2013
I tell Hairy Mary’s mom that I get $466.00 a month in social security and she can have the whole thing for food and lights and stuff, if she’ll let me stay.
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Observations from Occupy Des Moines

  • Sarah Hogan
  • November 16, 2011
The Occupy Movement is under attack in major cities across the country, and with the weather turning colder, occupiers find themselves facing new obstacles. This is a report from the…
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