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If You Don’t Know, Now You Know: Talking with Joseph Rios

  • B.A. Williams
  • December 7, 2018
Joseph Rios discusses his debut collection, SHADOWBOXING: POEMS AND IMPERSONATIONS.
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Our Beautiful Fragility: A Conversation with Lisa Locascio

  • Janet Frishberg
  • November 28, 2018
Lisa Locascio discusses her debut novel, OPEN ME.
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None of This Is Supposed to Be a Secret: Talking with Erin Hoover

  • Lynn Melnick
  • November 26, 2018
Poet Erin Hoover discusses her debut collection, BARNBURNER.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #155: Bonnie Chau

  • A.A. Balaskovits
  • November 21, 2018
“There’s always the thought that there’s more, there’s something else, something more than this.”
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The Fraught Business of Identity: Nicole Chung’s All You Can Ever Know

  • Chelsea Leu
  • November 14, 2018
All You Can Ever Know insists that the stories we use to understand ourselves should be allowed as much complexity as the truth dictates.
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Revolution Was Coming: A Conversation with Rabeah Ghaffari

  • Alana Mohamed
  • November 12, 2018
Rabeah Ghaffari discusses her debut novel, TO KEEP THE SUN ALIVE.
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Off the Interstate, into Real Experience: Talking with Erica Trabold

  • Jenny Boully
  • November 9, 2018
Erica Trabold discusses her debut essay collection, FIVE PLOTS.
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A Sense of God: She Would Be King by Wayétu Moore

  • Whitney Beber
  • October 31, 2018
Perhaps one of the most beautiful things Moore does is to give voice to those who would not or did not have a voice.
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Writing in Earnest: Talking with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

  • S. Ferdowsi
  • October 22, 2018
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah discusses FRIDAY BLACK.
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My Nebraska is Only One Nebraska: Erica Trabold’s Five Plots

  • Kristine Langley Mahler
  • October 10, 2018
Five Plots wades into the enigmatic relationships between family and memory, where truth is seemingly as placid as the Platte River but re-examination causes a re-route.
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Circling Backwards, Snaking Sideways: Talking with Sharlene Teo

  • Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada
  • October 3, 2018
Sharlene Teo discusses her debut novel, PONTI.
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Hard to Swallow: Allie Rowbottom’s Jell-O Girls

  • Sara Rauch
  • September 12, 2018
Jell-O, that seemingly innocuous, gem-colored dessert, has a darker history than one might expect.
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