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American, Not Blonde

  • Angie Chatman
  • November 23, 2020
I was finally going to fit in in this foreign country.
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Keeping Time in Los Angeles

  • Melissa Haley
  • March 5, 2020
Music was noise, and noise was music, and George Antheil was on his way.
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The Fraught Nature of Belonging: Nathalie Handal’s Life in a Country Album

  • Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
  • January 31, 2020
Each poem opens a window into cities and vocabularies of exile.
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Body of Nonsense

  • Sophie Amado
  • January 20, 2020
It is winter, and I’ve been thinking a lot about Samuel Beckett.
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Gourmand

  • Carmella de los Angeles Guiol
  • December 18, 2019
For him, this is not life. This is not living.
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Mom Vagina

  • Maggie Kim
  • May 7, 2018
When the physical therapist explains the electric dildo she holds in her hand will reset the nerve endings in my vagina so I won’t need to pee every hour, I say, “Get it in me and let’s go.”
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The Summer of Lana Del Rey

  • Melissa Batchelor Warnke
  • July 10, 2017
Three summers ago, I did nothing but drive around Middlebury, Vermont, blasting Lana Del Rey and chain-smoking cigarettes. It was—and I will be dramatic, because that is how it felt—an…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Chen Chen

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • May 16, 2017
Chen Chen discusses his new collection When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, playing the game white supremacy has set up, and if God is trying and failing to be a cool dad.
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A Meer-Kin in Paris

  • Scott Dominic Carpenter
  • February 21, 2017
Her face lit up, and I checked to make sure the man’s scowl had returned. It wasn’t enough for me that heaven should exist for the wife; her husband had to end up in hell.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 22, 2016
Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce discuss the translation of Justine, Mondrup's 2012 Danish novel about a young artist in Denmark.
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Julia Deck on the Game of Writing

  • Stephanie Bento
  • October 27, 2016
To me, writing a book is also creating a game for both myself and the reader. Over at the Believer Logger, Natasha Boas talks to Julia Deck, author of Viviane…
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Navigating French

  • Stephanie Bento
  • September 28, 2016
Over at The Millions, Hannah Gersen interviews Lauren Collins about her memoir, When in French; learning a foreign language; and writing about herself. As Collins recalls: I wanted to describe…
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