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Love and Loss in the Time of Pandemics: Talking with Paul Lisicky

  • Royal Young
  • May 11, 2020
Paul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith

  • Donna Tallent
  • May 8, 2020
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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It’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life

  • Mary Mandeville
  • May 6, 2020
My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
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Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang

  • Janet Rodriguez
  • April 27, 2020
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview #210: Melissa Ragsly

  • Anna Vangala Jones
  • March 12, 2020
“I am the salt; the stories are the food.”
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Father Time Is Undefeated

  • Chris Ames
  • February 25, 2020
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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Between Illusion and Reality: A Conversation with Erin Pringle

  • Shannon Perri
  • February 21, 2020
Erin Pringle discusses her debut novel, HEZADA! I MISS YOU.
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Deleting Your Photos in a Poppy Field

  • Christopher Soto
  • February 5, 2020
It took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #205: Beth Alvarado

  • Irene Cooper
  • January 30, 2020
“For me, when I write nonfiction, my mind moves from the outside to the inside.”
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Both Reckoning and Embrace: Dorianne Laux’s Only As The Day Is Long

  • Jeri Theriault
  • January 3, 2020
As the book continues, [Laux] traces a growing understanding of loss.
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Translating Desire: The Erotic-Macabre Poetry of Joyce Mansour

  • Emilie Moorhouse
  • November 18, 2019
...women’s writing has often been deemed too dark, too sultry, too frigid, too hysterical.
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Parallel Planes: The Ghosts of Mothers and Daughters

  • Becky Fine-Firesheets
  • November 14, 2019
I need to hear myself say it out loud to make it real.
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