Like Clockwork, Like Memory: There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife by JinJin Xu
How to live with a love so intense, a pressure so ripe?
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Posts Tagged: naming
Cherry Blossom Girl
Her name was Ing Hua. Literal translation: Cherry Blossom.
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Omayra (In Other Words)
I wonder, then, what it is to die. Perhaps to die is a matter of location.
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The Reconstruction of Derrida: Peter Salmon’s An Event, Perhaps
The key insight is that names, and indeed all boundaries, involve a hierarchy.
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On Monsters and Mythology: A Conversation with Alex DiFrancesco
Alex DiFrancesco discusses their new story collection, TRANSMUTATION.
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Everything Must Change: A Conversation with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos discusses her new essay collection, GIRLHOOD.
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A Language for Extinction: Zaina Alsous’s A Theory of Birds
And if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
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On Relic and Recovery: A Conversation with Kimiko Hahn
Poet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
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Circuitous Journeys: Talking with Sejal Shah
Sejal Shah discusses her debut essay collection, THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE.
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The Thread: Lacuna
If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
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Celebrating Queer Portland: A Conversation with Claire Rudy Foster
Foster discusses their new story collection, SHINE OF THE EVER.
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Welcome to South Bend: How to Change Your Name in Indiana
I don’t even know what planet I’m on!
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Introducing Lamoishe and Hezbollah Schoenfeld
I nearly got disowned over my decision not to pass on the family name.
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How to Name Dead Babies
Let’s not pretend first means there’s a good place to start.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan discusses her latest collection, THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kamilah Aisha Moon
Kamilah Aisha Moon discusses her new collection, Starshine & Clay, the power of naming, and the connection between creation and trauma.
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Say the Name
And what weapons does Trump have in his arsenal, beyond the name he has been able to hide malignant words and actions behind?
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