Constant Motion: Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
More than a longing for an origin story, Hernandez Castillo’s memoir is an attempt to bring the invisible to light.
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Both Past and Present: A Conversation with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo discusses his debut memoir, CHILDREN OF THE LAND.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #196: Alan Chazaro
“[P]art of writing is cementing some sort of memory.”
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The Itch to Write: Talking with Courtney Maum
Courtney Maum discusses her new novel, COSTALEGRE.
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Undertones
One moment white, the next Latina, the next neither.
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Leaving a Record: Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive
How does what we choose to document dictate whose lives matter?
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What Lurks Below: A Conversation with Chloe Aridjis
Chloe Aridjis discusses her forthcoming novel, SEA MONSTERS.
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Raising the Dead: Claudia Castro Luna’s Killing Marías
The poems in Killing Marías sustain a deep reverence for women and are a call to action for the world.
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The Queer Syllabus: Chavela by Catherine Gund and Daresha Kyi
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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Reinventing the World: José Olivarez’s Citizen Illegal
If they come for one of us, they will come for us all.
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How to Steal a Frozen Burrito
If you ask me why I did it, I can’t give you a proper answer. I was hungry and didn’t have much money, but it wasn’t like I was homeless or went to sleep starving.
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They Prefer People to Die: On Trump, Borders, and Racism
A good man doesn’t leave someone to die in the desert, and when he uses God’s name, he does it to bless, not to kill.
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The Torment of Queer Literature
Queer literature isn’t a box to unlock so that it can unlock me.
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Lessons from a Life: Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
[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.
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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The Tension of Identity: Hands That Break and Scar by Sarah A. Chavez
For Sarah A. Chavez, the body works as a site of difference and violence, but also magic and wisdom.
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The Journey toward Elsewhere: Natalia Sylvester’s Everyone Knows You Go Home
Despite its supernatural beginning, Everyone Knows You Go Home is grounded in the kind of gritty realism lived by every immigrant in this country.
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“Amezcua’s synths and Sanchez’s vocals craft the perfect soundtrack to get lost in…”
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Eloisa Amezcua
Eloisa Amezcua discusses her collection From the Inside Quietly, bilingualism in poetry, and the connection between whiteness and yeast infections.
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Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Thinking about the Story: A Conversation with Kareem Mortimer
Filmmaker Kareem Mortimer discusses his latest feature, Cargo, his writing process, and why the Bahamas can be “a microcosm for the world.”
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Playing God: A Conversation with Daniel Olivas
Daniel Olivas discusses his recent short story collection, The King of Lighting Fixtures, writing humor, and the role of religion in his work.
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A Need for a Home: Lucy Hughes-Hallett Discusses Peculiar Ground
Lucy Hughes-Hallett discusses her debut novel, Peculiar Ground, out today from HarperCollins.
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Sound & Vision: Celia C. Pérez
Allyson McCabe talks with Celia C. Pérez about her debut middle-grade novel, The First Rule of Punk, her inspirations for writing the book, and her own childhood.
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TORCH: Over the Borderline
I’m writing about the border through the eyes of children because the border is a problem of the imagination.
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Wisdom Is a Double-Edged Sword: Talking with Jay Baron Nicorvo
Jay Baron Nicorvo discusses his debut novel, The Standard Grand, how easy it is for civilians to forget about soldiers and veterans, and his longstanding love of animals.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erika L. Sánchez
Erika L. Sánchez discusses her new collection Lessons on Expulsion, pushing back against sexism and misogyny, being a troublemaker, and donkeys.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Day of the Dead
Octavio is tired, tired of trying to separate what he remembers so vividly from the memories he can barely make out in the fog.
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A Language in Constant Rebellion: Talking with Aura Xilonen
Aura Xilonen discusses her novel, Gringo Champion, the realities of immigration, translating texts, and her love of cinema.
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Immigration and Infertility: Talking with Shanthi Sekaran
Shanthi Sekaran discusses her new novel, Lucky Boy, where fraught issues like immigration and infertility—and the lives they impact—intersect.
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