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Mensah Demary

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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide

  • The Rumpus
  • November 20, 2020
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
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What to Read When You Are Searching for Community

  • A MAP IS ONLY ONE STORY contributors
  • February 21, 2020
Contributors to A MAP IS ONLY ONE STORY share reading recommendations.
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  • Notable New York

Notable NYC: 2/1–2/7

  • Ian MacAllen
  • February 1, 2020
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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Notable NYC: 5/6–5/12

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 6, 2017
Saturday 5/6: Jennifer E. Smith presents Windfall. McNally Jackson Books, 6 p.m., free. Carmen Giménez Smith and Aldrin Valdez join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5.
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Next Letter in the Mail: Mensah Demary

  • The Rumpus
  • April 24, 2017
Our next Letter in the Mail comes from Mensah Demary! Mensah writes about not surrendering hope, but instead clinging to it to remain sane in these anxiety-filled times. “There is no…
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The Rumpus Interview with Rion Amilcar Scott

  • Kevin Sterne
  • January 16, 2017
Rion Amilcar Scott discusses his story collection Insurrections, father relationships, hip-hop, knowing when to abandon a project, and choosing not to workshop certain stories.
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A Language Only We Can Hear

  • Guia Cortassa
  • May 31, 2016
Kendrick Lamar’s debut album “Good Kid, M.A.D.D. City” contains the basic, essential elements of a novel: a protagonist faced with an antagonistic outer world, plot and its arc—from opening scene…
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The Literary Value of Hip-Hop

  • Katie O'Brien
  • April 22, 2016
At Electric Literature, Mensah Demary argues that there should be greater appreciation of hip-hop as a powerful storytelling medium, positing Nas as a master of literary narrative: If presented with…
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The Rumpus Interview with Elisa Gabbert

  • Mensah Demary
  • January 6, 2016
Author Elisa Gabbert talks about her books, The Self Unstable and The French Exit, diversity, publishing, whiteness, and writing in the Internet Age.
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Change, but Not Too Much

  • Michelle Vider
  • January 4, 2016
Mensah Demary caps off the year at Catapult with an essay that reflects on the traditional New Year’s resolution and what our easy dismissing of these attempts to change says…
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How to Become

  • Kyle Williams
  • October 5, 2015
Mensah Demary, Associate Web Editor for the new and exciting online literary outlet Catapult, shares his story of how he got to be where he is through a series of…
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The Great American Tweeter

  • P.E. Garcia
  • May 4, 2015
Reading Literary Twitter is to witness brief, terse glimpses into the writerly psyche, and how insecure and unsure and thin-skinned we tend to be. As writers, we want to be…
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