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Supermom

  • Lauren LeFranc
  • October 5, 2017
I knew glasses and vases could break, even toys. But I didn’t know mothers could.
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What to Read When You Want to Write Like a Mother

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  • September 29, 2017
A list of books that wrangle, directly or indirectly, with motherhood and all that comes with it (or its absence).
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Reinventing Motherhood and Re-Dreaming Reality: Talking with Ariel Gore

  • Zoe Zolbrod
  • September 29, 2017
Ariel Gore discusses her new novel We Were Witches, why capitalism and the banking system are the real enemies, and finding the limits between memoir and fiction.
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What Appears to Be Fiction: A Conversation with Nicole Krauss

  • Alex Dueben
  • September 25, 2017
Nicole Krauss discusses her new novel Forest Dark, provoking questions about reality with her work, and trusting readers to think for themselves.
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“The Book I Said I Would Never Write”: Talking with Karolina Ramqvist

  • Mickie Meinhardt
  • September 22, 2017
Karolina Ramqvist discusses The White City, her first novel to be translated to English, and the idea of a writer's persona out in the world versus a just being a writer, writing.
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Basura

  • Emily Withnall
  • September 21, 2017
[T]erms like "white trash" and basura most accurately reveal those who are doing the defining. Consider what we throw away, and why. Look at what we throw away. Think about the reasons why.
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I Will Not Die for You

  • Kristine Langley Mahler
  • September 20, 2017
Each bug in the water is one less bug on my fruit, I tell myself, ignoring the truth: under the soil, another is born.
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An Erasure of Distance: Traveling in Circles with Nathan Englander

  • Ryan Krull
  • September 15, 2017
Nathan Englander talks about his new novel, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, the experience of being interviewed, and why he believes books can save lives.
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Visitations: Gwendolyn Brooks at One Hundred

  • Julie R. Enszer
  • September 12, 2017
A visitation is how I describe the past weeks walking with Gwendolyn Books. It is like she is just around every corner.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #100: Jennifer Colville

  • Nina Lohman Cilek
  • September 7, 2017
From the tender age of eight, Jennifer Colville has known herself to be a visual artist.
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A Magpie for the Lord

  • D.L. Mayfield
  • September 6, 2017
What would it be like to not be us? We were trying to figure out so much about the world then, and this is something we could never get to the bottom of.
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The Butt Song

  • Katherine C. Sinback
  • August 31, 2017
Last night as my husband got ready to go out [my daughter] grabbed his coat and said, “Call 1-900-Mix-A-Lot and kick those nasty thoughts.”
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