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Families

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Making Space for Curiosity: A Conversation with Pik-Shuen Fung

  • Annie Liontas
  • July 21, 2021
Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, GHOST FOREST.
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Writing toward Meaning: A Conversation with Ethel Rohan

  • Mackenzie Rohan
  • May 19, 2021
Ethel Rohan discusses her new story collection, IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.
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The Climate of Feeling: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk

  • Sruti Islam
  • December 27, 2019
Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
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The Family Novel

  • Kevin Chong
  • February 27, 2018
What you cannot put into words cannot become a lie.
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The Rumpus Interview with Imbolo Mbue

  • Nina Moog
  • December 5, 2016
Imbolo Mbue discusses her debut novel Behold the Dreamers, teaching herself how to write a novel, and the price of the American Dream.
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The Rumpus Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang

  • Hannah Baxter
  • November 4, 2016
Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her first novel, The Border of Paradise, about a multi-generational new American family, creative expression through writing and photography, and interracial relationships.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Remembering Molly

  • Lisa Ellison
  • October 31, 2015
Ten years later I still wondered about those aviator glasses and whether The Breakfast Club could restore us.
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Rewriting Friendship and the Family

  • Michelle Vider
  • September 1, 2015
At Longreads, Jessica Gross interviews social scientist Bella DePaulo on her research into the underreported popularity of non-nuclear living arrangements. DePaulo’s research also delves into the particular emergence of friendship…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Stars Hollow, Revisited

  • Tara Isabella Burton
  • January 31, 2015
They always find their way back to one another again.
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The Families We Create

  • Ashley Perez
  • November 12, 2013
Rumpus contributor Michelle Tea talks with Ms. Fit Magazine about getting pregnant, the families we create ourselves, and MUTHA Magazine. Here is probably one of the coolest quotes ever seen…
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