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Nothing Gets Solved: Talking with Kevin Nguyen

  • Janet Frishberg
  • April 22, 2020
Kevin Nguyen discusses his debut novel, NEW WAVES.
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  • ENOUGH
  • Politics
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ENOUGH: Rape of a Goddess

  • The Rumpus
  • June 4, 2019
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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A Life of Words: A Conversation with Chip Livingston

  • Helga Schimkat
  • December 26, 2017
Chip Livingston discusses his new novel, Owls Don't Have to Mean Death, his move to Uruguay, his writing life, and the significance of owls.
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Say the Name

  • Lauren Swift
  • September 26, 2017
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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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Gabrielle Calvocoressi

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • September 19, 2017
Gabrielle Calvocoressi discusses her new collection Rocket Fantastic, the fluid nature of gender, and the reader as collaborator with the text.
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Interrogating the English Language with Safiya Sinclair

  • Laura Creste
  • March 27, 2017
To be forced to speak in the language of the colonist, the language of the oppressor, while also carrying within us the storm of Jamaican patois, we live under a constant hurricane of our doubleness.
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This Week in Essays

  • Tamara Matthews
  • February 15, 2017
Through her work with Doctors Without Borders, Caitlin L. Chandler offers us a glimpse of what life is like on the Syrian border for Guernica. For Real Life magazine, Christopher Schaberg examines the…
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Market Researching My Desire

  • Elizabeth A. I. Powell
  • January 3, 2017
I noted the weirdness, and then filed it away until a time I might really consider the implications of wanting to bury someone’s stockings. I was lost in metaphor, which meant I was lost in everything.
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The Buck Stays Here

  • Argyle C. Klopnik, Esq.
  • January 2, 2017
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ladies Lazarus

  • Piper Daniels
  • December 11, 2016
For Mother, two worlds—earth we inhabit together, then the hot, heavenly body of euphoria and speed. Often, Mother exists in the tear between these worlds, belonging nowhere, to no one.
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I Love(d) Dick, but Not the Show

  • Emily Bogin
  • December 1, 2016
It’s difficult, if not impossible, to convey the arc of a series of letters in a TV show. Words flash on the screen at regular intervals in bright Helvetica.
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Off the Mainstream Map

  • Sam Metz
  • October 24, 2016
For Bitch Media, Rumpus Funny Women Editor Elissa Bassist interviews writer-actress Roberta Colindrez on her recent roles in Amazon’s adaptation of Chris Kraus’s I Love Dick and the Broadway adaptation…
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