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Migration and return: De’Shawn Charles Winslow on going back to West Mills

  • Ravi Howard
  • March 8, 2023
I was able to visualize my hometown so much more keenly, having not lived there in fifteen years. I believe it allowed me to write about the place with a little bit more compassion than if I had tried to write these books living there.
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Reclaiming History from the Bigots: Jill Lepore’s This America

  • Robert Rosenberger
  • September 23, 2020
History itself is not so conveniently tidy, and neither is this book.
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Queering the Southern Gothic: A Conversation with Genevieve Hudson

  • Leni Zumas
  • August 12, 2020
Genevieve Hudson discusses her debut novel, BOYS OF ALABAMA.
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What We Inherit: Talking with Chanelle Benz

  • Crystal Hana Kim
  • June 24, 2019
Chanelle Benz discusses her debut novel, THE GONE DEAD.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 15): “Southern History”

  • Brian Spears
  • July 4, 2017
We can’t hide from our history and we can’t pass it on to future generations.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 11): “Skinhead”

  • David Biespiel
  • April 25, 2017
Using dramatic monologue, Smith unmasks the skinhead’s anger to fend off threats to his way of life.
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The Rumpus Saturday Essay: The Savage Mind, Pt. 3

  • David Treuer
  • April 15, 2017
To deny violence is to do it. Our surprise at Sandy Hook and Cold Springs and Columbine is a form of violence in its own right.
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The Rumpus Interview with Joe Okonkwo

  • Hannah Baxter
  • March 10, 2017
Joe Okonkwo discusses his debut novel Jazz Moon, the quest for self-discovery, creative inspiration, and what it means to build a family when home is so very far away.
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The Rumpus Interview with LaShonda Katrice Barnett

  • Alex Dueben
  • March 11, 2015
Novelist LaShonda Katrice Barnett discusses her debut novel, Jam on the Vine, how becoming a historian taught her about plot, Muslims living in Texas in the 19th century, and the Missouri State Penitentiary, also known as “the bloodiest 47 acres in America.”
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The Last Bastion of Jim Crow

  • Jesse Nathan
  • February 12, 2009
The Order of Myths is a film too nuanced to confront lynching directly, and too focused to make any easy statement about racism.
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