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Joy in Persistence: Siri Hustvedt on Writing and the Need for Adaptive Grandiosity

  • Leslie A. Lindsay
  • February 21, 2022
Everyone, even the most tell-all writer, withholds something in the interests of protecting herself or others, but my interest in my own stories has always been to use them to illustrate larger stories about the culture . . .
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The Past Is All We Have: André Aciman’s Homo Irrealis

  • Sukhada Tatke
  • July 14, 2021
Is it not in the warm chambers of the past, after all, that we are immortal, invincible, and alive?
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On Relic and Recovery: A Conversation with Kimiko Hahn

  • Mackenzie Singh
  • November 9, 2020
Poet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #215: Traci Brimhall

  • Kathryn Nuernberger
  • April 30, 2020
“Everything in my life is basically a scribble.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #202: Michelle Steinbeck

  • Nina Moog
  • December 19, 2019
“I wanted every reader to see her or his own story.”
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Sharp and Twisty and Complicated: Talking with Melanie Abrams

  • Eric Longfellow
  • August 17, 2018
Melanie Abrams discusses her debut novel, PLAYING, and a forthcoming novel, MEADOWLARK.
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Blue, Blue Windows: On Writing and Helplessness in the Age of Trump

  • Beth Boyle Machlan
  • November 16, 2017
The brain in the jar wants out, you know. It just can’t do anything about it.
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Loving America: Reading Carlos Bulosan with My Students

  • Matthew Salesses
  • November 8, 2017
Can one love one’s country into a better version of itself? And can that love better the self?
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Donald Thinks

  • Matt Brogan
  • August 10, 2017
Donald believes the earth is round, he does, and that it spins on its axis and revolves around the sun. No doubt. He just prefers the old rectangular tales with their sharp borders and precipitous ends.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #33: Solstice Soul Song

  • Charles Kruger
  • June 23, 2017
Today I write on the longest day of the year, the summer solstice. As someone who has been influenced by not a few pagan practitioners and Wiccan wonder workers, along…
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The Rumpus Review of It Comes at Night

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • June 22, 2017
“It” does not even “come” in the traditional sense. These primal, atavistic qualities are with us all the time, lying dormant until the right situation coaxes them forth.
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Unforbidden but Still Hidden

  • Kirstin Allio
  • May 26, 2016
Psychoanalyst and writer Adam Phillips talks with his editor, Ileene Smith, about unforbidden pleasures and his new book of the same title at FSG’s Works in Progress. Phillips respectfully declines…
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