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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #204: Paulina Flores

  • Haley Sherif
  • January 16, 2020
“Working with words is a quest, not blind, but in the darkness.”
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Fear and Loathing

  • Theodora Messalas
  • September 16, 2016
For Lambda Literary, Christopher Soto talks with Brenda Shaughnessy about her new collection of poetry and how she relates to her writing as someone who is already four collections in.…
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Baking Lessons: Needing, Rising, and Letting Go

  • Debka Colson
  • August 30, 2016
When I took those breaths, I also learned to say, “I am enough, I am enough, I am enough.”
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Spotlight: “Nuts: A True Story” by Peter Witte

  • Peter Witte
  • May 10, 2016
It’s more likely, though, that someone saw everything and felt sympathy that, in the moment, they just didn't communicate.
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Used-Car Salesman

  • Michael Lowenthal
  • April 15, 2016
I wondered if he understood my joke, or its evasion, but surely he knew a used-car salesman always fudged his story. In fact, the car had been in my possession all of three weeks. Also, it didn’t exactly belong to me.
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The Circle Is Watching

  • Inge Oosterhoff
  • January 25, 2016
In a world where boundaries between private and public are already blurring, Tim and Nicolaas wanted to find out what would happen if those boundaries disappeared altogether.
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