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Cutting to the Core: A Conversation with Tara Isabel Zambrano

  • Audra Kerr Brown
  • September 18, 2020
Tara Isabel Zambrano discusses DEATH, DESIRE, AND OTHER DESTINATIONS.
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Bald-headed Muthaf*cker

  • Tahirah Alexander Green
  • May 19, 2020
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
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Doing This Wild Thing: A Conversation with Leesa Cross-Smith

  • Monet Patrice Thomas
  • March 6, 2020
Leesa Cross-Smith discusses her new story collection, SO WE CAN GLOW.
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What Toulouse-Lautrec Taught Me about Intimacy

  • Erin Khar
  • March 3, 2020
I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
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Off the Grid: Talking with Jamie Beth Cohen

  • Emily F. Popek
  • January 8, 2020
Jamie Beth Cohen discusses her debut novel, WASTED PRETTY.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Malcolm Tariq

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • November 26, 2019
Malcolm Tariq discusses his debut collection, HEED THE HOLLOW.
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Translating Desire: The Erotic-Macabre Poetry of Joyce Mansour

  • Emilie Moorhouse
  • November 18, 2019
...women’s writing has often been deemed too dark, too sultry, too frigid, too hysterical.
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The Mania of Queer Desire: In Praise of Fever Ray’s Plunge

  • Logan February
  • August 29, 2019
I remember driving a bird mad once.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #97: It’s a Wonder We Can Even Feed Ourselves

  • Rick Moody
  • August 1, 2019
What follows, then, is a sort of first-thought-best-thought discussion of MORE BLOOD, MORE TRACKS.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Coyote on Holy Mesa”

  • Quintan Ana Wikswo
  • March 19, 2019
I have come to the desert in search of bones.
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Building the Muscle: A Conversation with Kristi Coulter

  • Melissa Batchelor Warnke
  • August 20, 2018
Kristi Coulter discusses her debut essay collection, NOTHING GOOD CAN COME FROM THIS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #142: Chelsea Hodson

  • Yvonne Conza
  • June 28, 2018
“If I didn’t allow myself to be vulnerable on the page, I wouldn’t get anywhere.”
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