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Fields of Light

  • Vanessa Nirode
  • May 18, 2020
Light reflects differently off near and faraway objects. It’s all about the light.
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You Can’t Be a Snob with Bad Teeth: Talking with David Sedaris

  • Lyz Lenz
  • June 2, 2017
David Sedaris discusses his new collection of diary entries, Theft By Finding, his love for book signings, and his inevitable return to IHOP.
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The Rumpus Interview with Stacy Szymaszek

  • Brandi Homan
  • December 23, 2016
Poet Stacy Szymaszek discusses her most recent collection, Journal of Ugly Sites & Other Journals, the "notebook genre," and claiming a city—ugly sites and all.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: How to Become a Tiger

  • Katie Darby Mullins
  • October 28, 2016
Tigers are bigger than my comprehension. That’s what I want. I want to be bigger than I am, so big I can’t even imagine it, so real I can’t ever be misinterpreted.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Lucy Dacus’s Journals

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • October 13, 2016
What I write in my journals is a personal record of the events in my life, and my reactions to them.
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On Keeping a Bullet Journal

  • Adam Keller
  • June 24, 2016
Several bullet journal gurus in that community have built significant online followings by posting photos of their hypnotically beautiful notebook spreads. “It’s pretty insane, I initially started posting photos of…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Defeat

  • David Biespiel
  • March 8, 2016
It never occurred to me to try to write poems without the guidance of other poets and poems.
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A Crucial Conversation with the Self

  • Guia Cortassa
  • March 8, 2016
For a black woman in a white world, a conversation with the self is crucial: for when she walks through that often-unwelcoming world she is subjected to confining perceptions of…
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The Big Idea: John Freeman

  • Suzanne Koven
  • February 22, 2016
John Freeman, Executive Editor at Lit Hub, talks with Suzanne Koven about his new print-only literary magazine Freeman's, the difference between between criticism and editing, and his fear of flying.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Mark and Frances Quinlan’s Favorite Things

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • January 28, 2016
What I want/need/love most is to be with my family.
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