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Honoring Street-Level New Orleans: A Conversation with Maurice Carlos Ruffin

  • Erik Gleibermann
  • November 23, 2021
Maurice Carlos Ruffin discusses his new story collection, THE ONES WHO DON’T SAY THEY LOVE YOU.
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Voices On Addiction: A Conversation with James Brown and Patrick O’Neil

  • Tim Hillegonds
  • July 29, 2021
James Brown and Patrick O’Neil discuss WRITING YOUR WAY TO RECOVERY.
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How Beautiful and Rough: A Conversation with Ashley C. Ford

  • Eve Ettinger
  • July 1, 2021
Ashley C. Ford discusses her debut memoir, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Gustavo Alvarez

  • Cullen Thomas
  • October 14, 2020
Gustavo “Goose” Alvarez talks with Cullen Thomas about PRISON RAMEN, and more.
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To Make Some Beauty: Talking with brian g. gilmore

  • M.I. Devine
  • October 5, 2020
Poet brian g. gilmore discusses his newest collection, COME SEE ABOUT ME, MARVIN.
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Stay Free: Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

  • Sean Carswell
  • January 22, 2020
Cha constructs a Los Angeles sharply different from most representations of the city.
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Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Samuel Barlow

  • Cullen Thomas
  • December 2, 2019
Writer Samuel Barlow talks with Cullen Thomas in the prison where he was held for half a century.
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ENOUGH: The Forgotten Women

  • The Rumpus
  • October 2, 2018
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Ward’s Mississippi Is Our Mississippi: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

  • Holly Genovese
  • September 19, 2017
Capturing the Delta in harrowing detail, Ward takes readers on a journey from her own home of the Gulf Coast to the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Angela Palm

  • Amye Day Ong
  • February 19, 2017
Putting experience into words gives them less power over me, I think.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 1): “The Idea of Ancestry”

  • David Biespiel
  • September 13, 2016
I know / their dark eyes, they know mine.
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Antonia Crane, The Dirty Dozenth

  • Steve Almond
  • May 13, 2014
And this is precisely why I was so entirely blown away by Antonia Crane’s new memoir, Spent, which chronicles her dark and twisted path through the above horrors with remarkable elegance and restraint.
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