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Reality Is Absurd: Talking with Ted O’Connell

  • Aatif Rashid
  • May 29, 2020
Ted O'Connell discusses his first book, K: A NOVEL.
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It’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life

  • Mary Mandeville
  • May 6, 2020
My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #96: Donna Baier Stein

  • Alice Roche Cody
  • August 10, 2017
Colorado’s Baby Doe Tabor was a bad ass. Born in 1854, ‘Lizzie,’ as she was known, bucked social norms of her day. In an era when silver miners believed it…
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The Human Cost: Discussing Political Storytelling with Olivia Kate Cerrone

  • Catherine Parnell
  • August 4, 2017
Olivia Kate Cerrone discusses her novella The Hunger Saint and the significance of historical fiction.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Diggins

  • Michelle L. LaPena
  • June 10, 2017
I was told that I was “a good digger” if I was behaving as a young child, working hard, and not talking back. Like nursery rhymes, the rhythm of racism cannot be forgotten.
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On Pain

  • Stacie Williams
  • July 20, 2015
There is pain in the Kentucky mountains. Some people's bodies throb with the ache of repetitive injuries. I am here, they yell to a cloudless sky. Look at me. I am hurting. I am in pain.
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Burning Brightly

  • Bryan Washington
  • April 22, 2015
Over at Narratively, Anthony Taille takes us on a walk through Pennsylvania mining town Centralia, after the fire that tore it apart.
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