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The Sled

  • B.J. Miller
  • December 26, 2017
Every bump jarred my body, and before twenty minutes had passed, I felt like a slab of veal locked in a meat freezer.
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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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Breaking Through: Gayle Brandeis Discusses The Art of Misdiagnosis

  • Kelly Thompson
  • November 14, 2017
Gayle Brandeis discusses her memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis, out today from Beacon Press.
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What to Read When It’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month

  • Anna Leahy
  • October 27, 2017
A list of books that offer various ways to understand what breast cancer means in our lives, individually and collectively.
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If You Are Abandoned

  • Steph Auteri
  • September 14, 2017
My uncle and I had shared many silences together and, in those silences, I felt as if we knew each other.
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Words as Events: A Conversation with Jeff Wood

  • Selina Scheumann
  • September 1, 2017
Jeff Wood discusses The Glacier, his genre-bending book combining novel, poetry, screenplay, and collage, how heritage has become a brand, and the American Midwest.
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The Colonizer

  • Charlotte Gullick
  • August 16, 2017
It felt like one of those soundtracks where the needle scrapes across the record, and silence prevails.
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The Gate of Permission: A Conversation with Victoria Redel

  • Jane Ratcliffe
  • July 14, 2017
Victoria Redel discusses her newest novel, Before Everything, living through and beyond grief, and why she loves secrets.
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The Hawk in Me

  • Susan Howard
  • July 11, 2017
I continue to adapt. I do all of this because I cannot run away, not really. There is nowhere to go. The hawk is the thing within me.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #91: Meghan Lamb

  • Christina Wood Martinez
  • July 6, 2017
Author Meghan Lamb‘s new novel, Silk Flowers (Birds of Lace, March 2017), is a book that cuts to the core of disturbance. In it, a woman is struck by an…
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #20: This Mortal Coil

  • Charles Kruger
  • March 10, 2017
Socrates: All men are mortal. The Storming Bohemian: I’m a man. Socrates: Right, so… The Storming Bohemian: Uh oh.
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What I’ll Tell My Children: On Being ‘F***Able’ under the Regime of President-elect

  • Jenessa Abrams
  • December 7, 2016
It’s time to take responsibility for compliancy.
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