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Swati Khurana talks with novelist and translator Idra Novey about the challenges and joys of translation, the idiosyncrasies of language, the inextricable reception of women's writing and women's bodies, and much more.

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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Bruce Owens Grimm

The more secrets I wrote about, the fewer I wanted to keep. And the more secrets I made public through my writing, the more I gained.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Blood-Red Bougainvillea

And maybe that’s the part I shouldn’t tell you: As often as I tried to lock it out, I invited male violence into our home.

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There Is No Such Thing as a True Story

Perspective is a fickle beast, and memory is an unreliable traveling companion through the years.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Story of My Fear Over Time

A boy dies at exactly my age, one month past ten years old. We share a birthday, same day, same year.

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1 + 1 = 3

In the wild, a natural hierarchy reigns: the weaker, the smaller submit to the big and strong. Alpha gorilla stands to beat his chest, and all the king's men zip their lips.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Reginald Dwayne Betts

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new book Bastards of the Reagan Era.

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The Rumpus Interview with Chinelo Okparanta

Chinelo Okparanta talks about her debut novel, Under the Udala Trees, her upcoming appearance at Portland’s Wordstock book festival, and LGBTQ rights in America and worldwide.

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The Rumpus Interview with Megan Kruse

Author Megan Kruse talks about her debut novel, Call Me Home, queer characters in rural places, sibling relationships, and how the music of Lucinda Williams inspires her.

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The Rumpus Interview with Phoebe Gloeckner

Artist and author Phoebe Gloeckner talks about her semi-autobiographical novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl, just adapted into a film starring Kristen Wiig and Alexander Skarsgard, and what she's working on now.

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Standing at the pool’s edge, he planted his eyes on the V-shape of my body where my legs met at my hips, where I felt the water drip. I saw his brown irises turn hard and hungry.

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Holding Evangelicals Accountable

Growing up in a slew of Evangelical churches, I saw this system of governance deployed to handle anything from adultery to domestic violence to pedophilia. And in each instance, this…

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domestic violence

The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Idra Novey

(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Bruce Owens Grimm

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Blood-Red Bougainvillea

There Is No Such Thing as a True Story

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Story of My Fear Over Time

1 + 1 = 3

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Reginald Dwayne Betts

The Rumpus Interview with Chinelo Okparanta

The Rumpus Interview with Megan Kruse

The Rumpus Interview with Phoebe Gloeckner

Body of Words

Holding Evangelicals Accountable

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