Posts Tagged: relationships

The Plague within a Plague: Ethel Rohan’s In the Event of Contact

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Rohan is masterful at mining these triads for their palpable uneasiness and unavoidable suffering.

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Claiming Our Untold Stories: Talking with Gina Frangello

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Gina Frangello discusses her debut memoir, BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Maria Cichosz

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“Thinking about blurring those lines got me closer to the truth of the clichés.”

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Encouraging Messiness: A Conversation with Melissa Broder

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Melissa Broder discusses her new novel, MILK FED.

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The Light Endures: 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins

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Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.

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If My Body Were a House

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Where my masculinity dwells, I am in control.

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Sleeping with Myself

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I exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.

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Complicating Unhelpful Binaries: Talking with Deesha Philyaw

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Deesha Philyaw discusses her debut story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES.

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Reality Is Changeable: Talking with Rachel Genn

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Rachel Genn discusses her new novel, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON.

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Touching What Once Was: A Conversation with Meredith Clark

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Meredith Clark discusses her debut lyric memoir, LYREBIRD.

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My Boyfriend, His Lover, and Me

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There is nothing I want more than a happy ending.

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Identity Politics and the English Language: Naoise Dolan’s Exciting Times

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Who “owns” the English language?

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Voices on Addiction: There Were Also Girls, Women

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I always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.

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The Cost of Liberation: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

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Patsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.

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Acclimation

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Such distinguished hybridity joined us all, animal and human, in a lonely, exclusive tribe.

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