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Larger Than Life: Talking with Alia Volz

  • Caryn Cardello
  • June 8, 2020
Alia Volz discusses her debut memoir, HOME BAKED.
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Voices on Addiction: Call Us Beautiful

  • Vanessa Mártir
  • May 12, 2020
I’m saying people can be imperfect and still be remembered as beautiful.
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Voices on Addiction: The Opposite of Hallelujah

  • Hannah Hindley
  • January 21, 2020
When I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Where to Find Him

  • Annabel Graham
  • November 27, 2019
It felt like the sun beating down on closed eyelids.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with T Kira Madden

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • March 20, 2019
T Kira Madden discusses her debut memoir, LONG LIVE THE TRIBE OF FATHERLESS GIRLS.
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Splintered Doors

  • Vanessa Mártir
  • May 21, 2018
This journey is ongoing. But I know this: my daughter will never have to break down a door.
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Voices on Addiction: What We Forget, What We Remember

  • Emily James
  • February 26, 2018
I don’t remember when [my brother] ran away; I just remember him being gone more often than not.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: April, 1968

  • Paul Justison
  • October 7, 2016
Used to see lots of psychedelic princes and princesses on Haight Street. Not many these days. But here were hundreds of the turned on and tuned in, dressed like birds and peacocks in heat.
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Vickie Stringer

  • Cullen Thomas
  • January 25, 2016
Vickie Stringer talks about her first novel Let That Be the Reason, her Triple Crown Publishing venture, life in prison, and making hip-hop literature.
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Interview with Guy Who Robs Drug Dealers

  • Casey Dayan
  • July 25, 2014
Peter Madsen: So where does this start? Brian: It starts with my moving from Long Island to Orlando, Florida. I wasn’t getting along with my immediate family, so I moved…
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