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Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Entertaining and Useful: A Conversation with Aline Kominsky-Crumb Elon GreenJune 1, 2018 Aline Kominsky-Crumb discusses her graphic memoir, Love That Bunch, drawing cancer, inadequacies of early work, and her burial wishes.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reviews Lessons from a Life: Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel LaTanya McQueenMay 30, 2018 [T]he effect of reading Chee’s essays is to be reminded of why we write, but also, why we read, even in these times of never-ending distress.Read
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Read Marissa Korbel Rumpus Original The Thread: Goddesses and Monsters Marissa KorbelMay 15, 2018 Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original The Emotion of the Moment: Talking with Terese Marie Mailhot Monet Patrice ThomasMay 11, 2018 Terese Marie Mailhot discusses her debut memoir, Heart Berries, crafting trauma on the page, and her views on motherhood after writing her memoir.Read
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Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original The Outsider: A Conversation with Michelle Tea Nikki DarlingMay 7, 2018 Michelle Tea discusses her forthcoming collection, Against Memoir, out tomorrow from Amethyst Editions/The Feminist Press.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original It’s Just Reality: Talking with Meaghan O’Connell Jaime GreenMay 2, 2018 Meaghan O'Connell discusses her new memoir, And Now We Have Everything, perfectionism in motherhood and writing, and being pregnant again.Read
Read Features & Reviews Reprint Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman Tessa FontaineMay 1, 2018 Sometimes a story suddenly changes.Read
Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews Music The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #133: Jake Shears Elon GreenApril 26, 2018 “I wrote this book. I worked really, really hard on it, and I was a little scared by it.”Read