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Navigating Empathy: Camille T. Dungy’s Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History

Luckily for us, Dungy’s increase in empathy and experience coincides with her embrace of the braided essay: her thinking crashes people, places, and ideas against each other in unexpected and adventurous ways.

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A Specific Kind of Loneliness: In Conversation with Geeta Kothari

Geeta Kothari discusses her debut collection, American xenophobia, and the immigrant narrative.

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Nikki Wallschlaeger

Nikki Wallschlaeger discusses her new collection Crawlspace, why she chose to work with the sonnet form, and how segregation in American never ended.

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This Week in Essays

Minda Honey writes at Longreads on traveling to detox from whiteness and discovering there is nearly nowhere to escape. Good news, New Yorkers: apparently noise can be good for creativity. Susie Neilson…

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Personal, Political, and Poetic: A Conversation with Susan Briante

Susan Briante discusses The Market Wonders, her newest collection of poetry in which she draws on market indicators like the Dow Jones Industrial Average to construct a criticism of contemporary culture.

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This Week in Books: Field Theories

Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and…

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Damian Duffy and John Jennings

Damian Duffy and John Jennings discuss their new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's classic novel Kindred.

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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: E. A. Longfellow

The way I think about my writing is similar to the way I think about my kink—both have to do with history and the ethics around appropriation.

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The Rumpus Interview with Dawn Lundy Martin

Dawn Lundy Martin discusses her most recent collection, Life in a Box Is a Pretty Life.

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The Rumpus Interview with Emily Raboteau

Emily Raboteau discusses her essay, “Know Your Rights!” from the collection, The Fire This Time, what she loves about motherhood, and why it’s time for White America to get uncomfortable.

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The Rumpus Interview with Vanessa Hua

Vanessa Hua discusses her debut collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, writing fiction in order to understand life as an American-born child of immigrants, and the importance of literary community.

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The Rumpus Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang

Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her first novel, The Border of Paradise, about a multi-generational new American family, creative expression through writing and photography, and interracial relationships.

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