Posts Tagged: Matthew Salesses

All the World is a K-Drama: A Conversation with Matthew Salesses

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I wanted to be able to frame the story within this understanding that these are powerful forces and that these are stories we’ve heard a lot before, and that these stories get in the way of, or make it hard to understand or even listen to, a more authentic or more real story about who people are or can be.

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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide

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Rumpus recommendations for books to gift to friends and family this holiday season!

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Two Books for the Frozen Sea: A Conversation with Megan Stielstra

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Megan Stielstra discusses her recently rereleased books EVERYONE REMAIN CALM and ONCE I WAS COOL.

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Pick Your Pleasure: Talking with Liz Asch

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Liz Asch discusses her new book, YOUR SALT ON MY LIPS.

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A Space to Include the Excess: Talking with Janice Lee

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Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.

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Notable Online: 5/16–5/22

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate APIA Heritage Month

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Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate APIA Heritage Month!

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What to Read When You Want Subversive Remakes

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Ethel Rohan shares a reading list to celebrate IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.

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Notable Online: 2/7–2/13

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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Notable Online: 1/17–1/23

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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What to Read When 2021 Is Just Around the Corner

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Books releasing in the first half of 2021 that we can’t wait to read!

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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide

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Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!

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Writing as Construction of the Self: Talking with Matthew Salesses

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Matthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Matthew Salesses

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Matthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.

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Notable Online: 8/9–8/15

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Literary events taking place virtually this week!

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What to Read When You’ve Made It Halfway Through 2020

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Rumpus editors share forthcoming books they can’t wait to read!

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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate APIA Heritage Month

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Rumpus editors share a list of new and forthcoming books to celebrate APIA Heritage Month!

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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Vivian Lee

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As an editor of color, one advantage I have is that writers of color are comfortable knowing I’m not asking for edits to artificially enhance or to cover up their race. It’s not weird to me that their characters look like them.

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The Gift of Gratefulness

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The worst insult people hurl at adoptees is that they are “ungrateful” and should “go back” (to their “own” countries, to their old families). That is the moment when adoption becomes a gift—because that is the moment when it becomes clear that adoption belongs to people like the adoptive parent and not people like the […]

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Plot and Prejudice

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At Electric Literature, Matthew Salesses discusses the works of Joseph Conrad and Flannery O’Connor to explore the problem of unconscious prejudice and unintentional racism in writing, and how writers can avoid it: The writing of fiction cannot treat marginalized characters as vessels, cannot let the plot play out the racism of under-enlightened protagonists. Perhaps the […]

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