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Any Moment Is a Door: Nadia Colburn’s The High Shelf

  • Kasey Jueds
  • October 23, 2020
Again, the red door stands open, allowing the world to enter.
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The Cost of Liberation: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

  • Keishel Williams
  • October 14, 2020
Patsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.
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A Photographer’s Wife

  • Rachel Somerstein
  • October 7, 2020
It’s hard to see what isn’t there.
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Fool Me Once

  • Amory Rowe Salem
  • October 6, 2020
The first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.
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The Category of Pretend: A Conversation with Makenna Goodman and Brian Gresko

  • Brian Gresko
  • October 1, 2020
Who am I and where do I go from here?
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Alison Stine

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • September 23, 2020
Alison Stine discusses her new novel, ROAD OUT OF WINTER.
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What Could Be: All Its Charms by Keetje Kuipers

  • Risa Denenberg
  • August 21, 2020
The decision to have a child is fraught at the best of times.
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Voices on Addiction: Letting It Suck

  • Liesl Schwabe
  • August 11, 2020
The thing we most had in common was that none of us wanted to be there.
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Milked

  • Veena Dinavahi
  • August 4, 2020
I mourn for my body, for the toll the world has taken on it.
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Quiet, Radical Defiance: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty

  • Apoorva Tadepalli
  • July 29, 2020
Education, work, study: these were not simply a means to an end.
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Straining Toward “Memory Care”: Victoria Chang’s Obit

  • Kion You
  • July 24, 2020
For Chang, figurative language proves unsatisfactory when compared to the depth of her grief.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #227: Karen Salyer McElmurray

  • Chris Moore
  • July 23, 2020
“You’re solving this mystery, you’re taking this journey, but that’s only an opening to another journey.”
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