The Woman in My Head: A Conversation with Emily Maloney
There’s a lot of rules or feelings about how writing a book should be, but very little of that actually corresponds with reality.
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Posts Tagged: medical
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #214: Sarah Kersey
“A poem cannot exist without form or structure, just like the human body can’t operate without a skeleton.”
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How We Write the Dead: A Conversation with Vikram Paralkar
Vikram Paralkar discusses his debut novel, NIGHT THEATER.
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Open Letter to Our Body
The only thing I can count on to be there tomorrow is my body. And yours.
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The Bent Hourglass: Living in Crip Time
This is how to be sick, or hurt: give up on fast time.
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The Medically Misguided Approach to Mistreatment
The definition of mistreatment is so broad that we cannot fully grasp what it is.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Brighde Moffat
If there is going to be pain, let it be by choice.
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Trust Us When We’re Sick: Maya Dusenbery’s Doing Harm
The systems created for men by men are not sufficient in caring for women. Different bodies and chemical makeups, of course, require different treatments.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #101: The Dardenne Brothers
Aware of The Bechdel Test or not, the Belgian brothers keep churning out movies that pass with flying colors.
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Melissa Yancy discusses her debut story collection Dog Years, using her day job for inspiration, and being “an old curmudgeon at heart.”
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