A Space to Include the Excess: Talking with Janice Lee
Janice Lee discusses her new novel, IMAGINE A DEATH.
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There Are No Rules: A Conversation with Jo Lloyd
Jo Lloyd discusses her debut story collection, SOMETHING WONDERFUL.
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The Revolutions of a Sonnet: frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
The richly historied form of the sonnet is a powerhouse for holding the past.
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An Imperfect Plan
In that moment of quiet, I screamed, as loud as I could, “I’m bisexual.”
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The Ugly Side of Ambition: A Conversation with Joy Lanzendorfer
Joy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
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The Dangerous Myth of the “Perfect Victim”: A Conversation with Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Jonathan Parks-Ramage discusses his debut novel, YES, DADDY.
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Ways to Love, and Be Loved: Talking with Joy Ladin
Joy Ladin discusses the new edition of THE BOOK OF ANNA.
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Desire for Depth and Closeness: Talking with Laurel Nakanishi
Laurel Nakanishi discusses her debut poetry collection, ASHORE.
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Always in Flux: A Conversation with Shy Watson
Shy Watson discusses her new collection, HORROR VACUI: POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS.
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Process over Product: Midst and Craft in the Real World
Calling on spirits is a communal act, multiple hands on the planchette.
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Not Looking Away: The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler
But look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
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Imposing the Life on the System: A Conversation with Eula Biss
Eula Biss discusses her new book, HAVING AND BEING HAD.
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The Complex Disability Representation We Need: Rebekah Taussig’s Sitting Pretty
What Taussig does, then, is ground these ideas in reality through her own lived experiences.
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Comb or Brush? An Immigrant’s Knotty Dilemma
I was curious. What was the origin of the comb versus brush divide?
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What Society Allows Us to Be: Megha Majumdar’s A Burning
What does it mean to be free?
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Justice by Seeing: Of Color by Jaswinder Bolina
But perhaps it is our want for firm ground that Bolina is challenging.
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An Obligation to Dream: Talking with Noé Álvarez
Noé Álvarez discusses his debut memoir, SPIRIT RUN.
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The Privilege of Anxiety: Mark O’Connell’s Notes from an Apocalypse
What does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sacred Stories”
All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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Others Would Tell Me Nothing Is Mine: Talking with Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes discusses her new collection, LETTERS TO A YOUNG BROWN GIRL.
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Against Respectability: A Conversation with Raven Leilani
Raven Leilani discusses her debut novel, LUSTER.
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Masters of Movement: A Conversation with Morgan Jerkins
Morgan Jerkins discusses her new book, WANDERING IN STRANGE LANDS.
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Quiet, Radical Defiance: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
Education, work, study: these were not simply a means to an end.
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Cultural Attunement and “Otherness”: A Conversation with Aimee Liu
Aimee Liu discusses her new novel, GLORIOUS BOY.
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Tripping the Ekphrastic Fantastic: Talking with Miah Jeffra
Miah Jeffra discusses their new book, THE FABULOUS EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC!.
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Collisions and Dissonance: Talking with Lynn Steger Strong
Lynn Steger Strong discusses her new novel, WANT.
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Too Earnest for Twitter: A Conversation with Cameron Esposito
Cameron Esposito discusses her new memoir, SAVE YOURSELF.
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Bodies Are Not Metaphors: Talking with Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett discusses her second novel, THE VANISHING HALF.
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On Loss of Land and Loss of Girlhood: Taneum Bambrick’s Vantage
Girlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
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