This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Posts Tagged: lupus
Tracing the Wolf
To brand myself with something I feared and sought to subdue seemed like a reclamation.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Molly Spencer
Molly Spencer discusses her new collection, HINGE.
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A Little Bit Irreverent, a Little Bit Truthful: Talking with Megan Cummins
Megan Cummins discusses her debut story collection, IF THE BODY ALLOWS IT.
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Reclamation, Reassembly, and Recognition: Jasminne Méndez’s Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e
What happens when the source of grief comes from within?
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What Did You Expect, Though?
The immune system, meant to protect a body from foreign invaders, works too assiduously, sees danger where there is none, turns on itself. Such conditions lend themselves to metaphor.
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Flannery on the Couch
In a new biography, Brad Gooch makes romantic assumptions about the relationship between O’Connor’s life and art.
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