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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #76: Chris Tusa

  • Steven Petite
  • March 23, 2017
Set in post-Katrina New Orleans, Chris Tusa’s second novel, In the City of Falling Stars (Livingston Press, September 2016), tells a tale of paranoia and intrigue. Maurice Delahoussaye witnesses dead birds…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Daddy Issues

  • Gwen Werner
  • February 26, 2017
What I’m saying is I was a fucking wreck and it’s not my dad’s fault.
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VISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Abeer Hoque

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • February 22, 2017
Abeer Hoque talks about coming of age in the predominantly white suburbs of Pittsburgh, rewriting her memoir manuscript ten times, and looking for poetry in prose.
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The Rumpus Interview with Naomi Jackson

  • Alli Maloney
  • February 6, 2017
Naomi Jackson discusses her debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill, how she approached writing about mental illness and its affects on a family, and choosing to to tell a story from multiple perspectives.
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This Week in Books: Civilianized: A Young Veteran’s Memoir

  • Kelly Lynn Thomas
  • January 2, 2017
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and…
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My Voice for Their Drugs

  • Sarah Fawn Montgomery
  • December 28, 2016
Anxiety disorients me from inside. My heart moves so erratically I’m afraid it will give out, my breath so staggered I have to remind myself to take in air.
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Not a Widow

  • Michelle Miller
  • December 20, 2016
I want to think of him as inhuman and selfish instead of an admirable man who eventually succumbed to a brain chemistry he had no control over.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ladies Lazarus

  • Piper Daniels
  • December 11, 2016
For Mother, two worlds—earth we inhabit together, then the hot, heavenly body of euphoria and speed. Often, Mother exists in the tear between these worlds, belonging nowhere, to no one.
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What We Lost: Undoing the Fairy Tale Narrative of Adoption

  • Liz Latty
  • November 17, 2016
The singular, unavoidable truth about adoption is that it requires the undoing of one family so that another one can come into being.
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The Rumpus Interview with Malka Older

  • Justin Ells
  • November 8, 2016
Malka Older discusses her debut novel Infomocracy, the nature of elections, and the future of democracy.
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The Rumpus Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang

  • Hannah Baxter
  • November 4, 2016
Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her first novel, The Border of Paradise, about a multi-generational new American family, creative expression through writing and photography, and interracial relationships.
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The Rumpus Interview with Brit Bennett

  • Abigail Bereola
  • October 17, 2016
Brit Bennett discusses her debut novel The Mothers, investigating “what-if” moments, and navigating racism in white spaces.
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