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It has been fifteen years, but I can still remember every moment of that year. It is cased in a vitrine, and the things I see through the wavy plexiglass are indistinct and as odd as that car going the wrong way on the parking garage ramp.

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The Rumpus Interview with Asali Solomon

Asali Solomon discusses her debut novel, Disgruntled, narrative structure, the mythology of memory and place, and returning to Philadelphia after years away.

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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Kill Shot

1964, a month prior to the anniversary of JFK’s assassination, a different home movie shot. Infant toss. Up-down. Plummeting. I’m ten months of age—picking up speed.

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D & K’s Fried Fish

In the yard of the single-wide trailer that will haunt you for the rest of your life, watch as your father pulls fish from the cooler, one by one.

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All of the Above

Any Nigerian will tell you that a woman without a husband is nothing.

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A Letter to My Father That He Will Never Read

What would I even say if I was to answer that long-awaited phone call? Would the light of forgiveness carry me fearlessly into tomorrow?

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jennifer Whitaker

Jennifer Whitaker discusses her new collection The Blue Hour, persona poems, the violence in fairy tales, and writing about sexual abuse.

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Plankton (A Body of Stars)

Plankton either grows into something other than plankton—a strong swimming non-planktonic adult, like a crab or a fish, or it stays the same—forever drifting with the shifting tides.

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On Being Jacques Lacan’s Daughter

A writer and translator in her own right, Sybille Lacan writes a series of reflections on what it was like to have the famous psychoanalyst/literary theorist Jacques Lacan as her…

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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jen Pastiloff

I am good at making people feel safe.

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The Rumpus Interview with Janice Erlbaum

Janice Erlbaum talks about her new novel, I, Liar, how writing memoir compares to writing fiction, homelessness in America, and Munchausen syndrome and Borderline Personality Disorder.

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The Rumpus Interview with Annie Liontas

Annie Liontas talks about her debut novel Let Me Explain You, crafting voices, and the benefits—and occasional pitfalls—of returning to get an MFA after years of writing in the dark.

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fathers and daughters

The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Through the Vitrine

The Rumpus Interview with Asali Solomon

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Kill Shot

D & K’s Fried Fish

All of the Above

A Letter to My Father That He Will Never Read

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jennifer Whitaker

Plankton (A Body of Stars)

On Being Jacques Lacan’s Daughter

The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Jen Pastiloff

The Rumpus Interview with Janice Erlbaum

The Rumpus Interview with Annie Liontas

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