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A Cosmic Wade Through Uncertainty: Talking with Sequoia Nagamatsu

  • Cameron Finch
  • January 3, 2022
Talking with Sequoia Nagamatsu about HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK.
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Both Trauma and Sin: Elizabeth Miki Brina’s Speak, Okinawa

  • Miyako Pleines
  • May 12, 2021
Speak, Okinawa is masterful at describing the internal dissonance that mixed race children can feel.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise

  • Rick Moody
  • February 11, 2021
For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
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Where Words Often Fail: Talking with Bryan Washington

  • Shanti Escalante-De Mattei
  • October 28, 2020
Bryan Washington discusses his new novel, MEMORIAL.
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Homage as Provocation: Karen Tei Yamashita’s Sansei and Sensibility

  • Ariel Djanikian
  • September 2, 2020
Pretend you are Austen. Enact an Austen novel. And what will happen?
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Poetics of Lineage

  • Sophia Terazawa
  • February 4, 2020
I see the birds. I feel my body, splitting from its spirit, lying in the grass.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Sanae Yamada’s Favorite Foods

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • September 19, 2019
It’s beyond comfort food. And when I’m out on the road it’s a signifier of home.
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Angry Reminders: Lee Ann Roripaugh’s Tsunami vs. the Fukushima 50

  • Jeannine Hall Gailey
  • August 23, 2019
Human beings like to make myths out of things we don’t understand.
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The Rumpus Interview with Joe Ide

  • Gina Prescott
  • March 15, 2017
Joe Ide discusses his debut novel, IQ his writing process, and why he enjoys fly fishing.
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The Rumpus Interview with Yumi Sakugawa

  • Mia Nakaji Monnier
  • September 18, 2015
Yumi Sakugawa discusses her latest book, Ikebana, discovering meditation, exploring blank spaces, and drawing a world of sentient oranges and one-eyed monsters.
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