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Read Rumpus Original It’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life Mary MandevilleMay 6, 2020 My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.Read
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Read Features & Reviews Mini-Interviews The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #178: Irene O’Garden Elizabeth PimentelMay 30, 2019 “Trust that if you want to write that much it will find a way out of you.”Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Hard-Earned, Essential Grace: Anaphora by Kevin Goodan Barbara BermanOctober 5, 2018 No elegy is an island and this elegy is no exception.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Moments within Days within Seasons: Talking with Alicia Mountain Justin WymerJune 20, 2018 Alicia Mountain discusses her debut collection, High Ground Coward, the surveillance state, and queer representation in the poetry world. Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Motivation and Humanity: A Conversation with Carrie La Seur Christine SneedMarch 16, 2018 Carrie La Seur discusses her new novel, The Weight of an Infinite Sky, standing up for what you know is right, and the writers who inspire her.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Slowly Converging Paths: A Conversation with Nate Blakeslee Erica BerryDecember 22, 2017 Nate Blakeslee discusses American Wolf: A True Story of Survival and Obsession in the West, cultivating trust in his sources, and recreating action-packed scenes he did not witness.Read
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Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Transgressive and Unruly Women: Talking with Anne Helen Petersen Rachel Vorona CoteSeptember 6, 2017 Anne Helen Peterson discusses her new book, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, her writing process, and academia. Read
Read Poetry Rumpus Original Letter to Jim Melissa StephensonDecember 30, 2016 Many days I couldn’t see the way forward, but I kept going, the way you had. It was you, after all, who taught me how to stay.Read