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Roland Barthes

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A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing

  • Kimberly Grey
  • June 15, 2021
I hope, by writing this, language can jar a wound.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kimberly Grey

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • December 29, 2020
Kimberly Grey discusses her new collection, SYSTEMS FOR THE FUTURE OF FEELING.
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Desire Makes Storytellers of Us All: Anthropica by David Hollander

  • Hugh Sheehy
  • November 25, 2020
What a fitting end to the postmodern literary experiment. Or are we just getting warmed up?
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Brief Moments Upon the Blank Page: Moyra Davey’s Index Cards

  • Tess Michaelson
  • October 21, 2020
The collection enacts—even performs—its own coming into being.
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What to Read When You’re Trying to Hold Your Selves Together

  • Irena Yamboliev
  • July 10, 2020
Irena Yamboliev shares a reading list to celebrate LOOKING WAS NOT ENOUGH.
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Variants of Unknown Significance

  • Mai Tran
  • June 3, 2020
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with María Sonia Cristoff and Katherine Silver

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • January 22, 2020
Author María Sonia Cristoff and translator Katherine Silver discuss INCLUDE ME OUT.
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The Evolution of Present-Day Greece: Talking with Nanos Valaoritis

  • Maria Espinosa
  • August 3, 2018
Poet and author Nanos Valaoritis discusses the political and cultural situation in Greece today.
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What Is Vibrant and Hidden: A Conversation with Jenny Boully

  • S. Ferdowsi
  • May 30, 2018
Jenny Boully discusses her new book, Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life, construction of voice, occupying liminal spaces, and editing with sincerity.
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There Is No Answer: Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles

  • Bradley Babendir
  • July 20, 2017
As Sentilles makes clear, she is against the wars the United States is currently involved in, and war in general, but she’s critical of what that means.
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What Is Being Charted Here?: Talking with Jennifer S. Cheng

  • Emma Winsor Wood
  • June 28, 2017
Poet and essayist Jennifer S. Cheng discusses her collection House A, working "in the dark," and the idea of home.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Pandora and the Naked Dead Woman

  • David Lazar
  • April 2, 2017
Bite that apple, open that jar at your own risk and see how your garden grows, how hopeful you remain. Paradise is, after all, blissful self-ignorance.
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