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A Friend in the Dark

  • Loren Kleinman
  • February 11, 2019
The process of guiding people to speak their truths was isolating.
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The Constituent Parts

  • torrin a. greathouse
  • January 29, 2019
I was seven the first time I fired a gun.
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Two Extraordinary Books: Bullets into Bells and Inquisition

  • Barbara Berman
  • August 3, 2018
The obscenities and tragedies of American life pile up with speed, and in quantities, that are appalling.
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A Real Good Guy

  • Zoe Marzo
  • July 10, 2018
Doesn’t murder exclude a person from being described as “a good guy”?
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This Future Is Here: Talking with Tom McAllister

  • Lyz Lenz
  • June 11, 2018
Tom McAllister discusses his new novel, How to Be Safe, workshops, Twitter, dystopia, and narrative voice.
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Moving Targets

  • Allie Marini
  • March 20, 2018
Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
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Strong Island’s Horizon

  • Alana Hauser
  • March 9, 2018
Whose lives are visible? Whose pain is just? Whose grief is vocal? Such inquiry is not rhetorical.
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Voices on Addiction: What We Forget, What We Remember

  • Emily James
  • February 26, 2018
I don’t remember when [my brother] ran away; I just remember him being gone more often than not.
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Guns or No Guns: Mental Health Crisis in Schools

  • Genevieve Anna Tyrrell
  • February 26, 2018
I do the best I can to reach out to those I see isolated or disturbed, but I have to also be careful I don’t make myself a target.
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What to Do with My Body in the Event I Die in a Mass Shooting

  • Tom McAllister
  • February 15, 2018
Don’t join them in their prayers (the god they pray to doesn’t exist).
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Sarah Blake

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • January 30, 2018
Sarah Blake discusses her new collection, Let's Not Live on Earth, questions in poems, monsters, and the challenge of writing a dystopia.
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An Arduous Reality: Testify by Simone John

  • Tom Griffen
  • January 26, 2018
Simone John’s first full-length collection of poems, Testify, is a remarkable exercise in documentary poetics.
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