Voices on Addiction: There Were Also Girls, Women
I always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.
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Posts Tagged: Memphis
The Intersection of Hope and Despair: Talking with Julien Baker
Julien Baker discusses her latest album, Turn Out the Lights, the ways in which she approaches writing about difficult subjects, and the redemptive power in being open about sadness.
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Moving Targets
Love twists itself into fear, into statistics, into things people can live with.
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Empathy Is Cheap: A Conversation with Brandon Harris
Brandon Harris discusses his memoir Making Rent in Bed-Stuy, gentrification in New York City and Brooklyn, the homogenization of American cities by corporate America, and whiteness of film culture.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Amy Benson
Our American obsession with the personal and individual has made us the tremendous resource consumers we are in the world.
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Once I dated the son of a preacher man. Later, I dated the son of a preacher woman.
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