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Middle Age

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C-Beams Glittering in the Dark: A Conversation with Cooper Lee Bombardier

  • Samantha Allen
  • May 22, 2020
Cooper Lee Bombardier discusses his first book, PASS WITH CARE: MEMOIRS.
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Inevitable Uncertainties: A Conversation with Joyce Hinnefeld

  • Alix Ohlin
  • April 1, 2020
Joyce Hinnefeld discusses her new story collection, THE BEAUTY OF THEIR YOUTH.
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The Promise of a Shampoo Bottle

  • Sara Petersen
  • August 27, 2018
Maybe this was what I’ve been missing all along. Acidification.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #77: People Give Me Things, Part One

  • Rick Moody
  • January 12, 2017
[T]he thing about receiving music from other people is this: there is always some grace associated with the transaction.
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Harley and Me by Bernadette Murphy

  • Eileen Favorite
  • July 3, 2016
Eileen Favorite reviews Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life by Bernadette Murphy today in Rumpus Books.
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On Visibility and Middle-Aged Women

  • Katie O'Brien
  • June 24, 2016
Over at Lit Hub, Dorthe Nors discusses writing about middle aged women who, on the verge of becoming invisible to a society that only values women as mothers or as…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Hot Thing

  • Rebecca Kuder
  • February 21, 2016
I wake in the dark in bed and there’s a furnace, a turncoat thermostat inside my body; there is no limit, there is no overdoodling, no crescendo. No hot enough, only hotter.
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I Hear the Place That Can’t Be Named

  • Wendy Willis
  • February 2, 2016
It is remembering and loving anyway—not forgetting—that binds us even if the recollections are absurd, undignified, cruel, or humiliating.
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Whole Lotta (Middle-Aged) Love

  • Sue William Silverman
  • November 3, 2015
The first time I saw Adam on television, on American Idol, past and present collided, as if psychedelic clothes, gnawed by moths, are suddenly rewoven, resurrected.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #65: Tragedy Plus Time

  • Rick Moody
  • May 4, 2015
Jesse Malin is a lifer in a business that rarely features lifers anymore.
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Sunday Links

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • December 21, 2014
Brooklyn Magazine’s Favorite Writers Share Their Favorite Childhood Books. One novel I loved when I was a kid was Madam Pastry and Meow. The details are fuzzy for me now,…
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