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Bright Buoy, Dark Sea: Kelli Russell Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides

  • Lauren K. Carlson
  • October 15, 2021
Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.
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The Dangerous Myth of the “Perfect Victim”: A Conversation with Jonathan Parks-Ramage

  • Greg Mania
  • June 28, 2021
Jonathan Parks-Ramage discusses his debut novel, YES, DADDY.
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Voices on Addiction: Searching for Lilacs

  • Andrea Jarrell
  • May 11, 2021
It hadn’t felt like teasing. It felt the way it always did these days—that I had disappointed her.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Adrienne Christian

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • March 30, 2021
Adrienne Christian discusses her newest collection, WORN.
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Against Respectability: A Conversation with Raven Leilani

  • Monet Patrice Thomas
  • August 17, 2020
Raven Leilani discusses her debut novel, LUSTER.
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Within the Scope

  • Laura Stanfill
  • February 18, 2020
While my friends write their truths in nearby cabins, I wear my silence like a bulletproof vest.
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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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A Pinpoint Perspective: Talking with Jami Attenberg

  • Monet Patrice Thomas
  • October 30, 2019
Jami Attenberg discusses her newest novel, ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS.
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Love in the Belly of Beginning

  • Cassie Mannes Murray
  • September 5, 2019
I think this is what love is, critical and enduring.
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Everyone Loves the Pope

  • Julianne Neely
  • October 2, 2017
My lover became the Pope. It was the twenty-tens and the Catholic Church wanted to rebrand with Newport cigarettes and Hermes chiseled calves.
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How We Break

  • Annalise Mabe
  • July 6, 2016
There is breaking, and there is breaking free from the broken.
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An Oral History of Myself #15: Neil Elliott

  • Stephen Elliott
  • January 8, 2016
This is probably one of those interviews where I should keep my mouth shut but you're my son.
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