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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Maria Cichosz

  • Jonathan Leal
  • March 18, 2021
“Thinking about blurring those lines got me closer to the truth of the clichés.”
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Writing to Cope: Talking with Yaffa S. Santos

  • Sheena Daree Miller
  • October 9, 2020
Yaffa S. Santos discusses her debut novel, A TASTE OF SAGE.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 24, 2019
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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Writing Romance: The Rumpus Interview with Sonali Dev

  • Maggie Cooper
  • March 20, 2017
Sonali Dev talks about her latest novel, A Change of Heart, the romance genre, writing non-white characters, and the parallels between writing and architectural design.
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Power and Choice in the Romance Novel Industry

  • Buffy Flores
  • September 28, 2016
In an essay for Catapult, writer and editor Kayleigh Hughes tackles the complex reality of the romance novel industry, wherein content can be simultaneously triggering, objectifying, empowering, and brave: As time went…
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Only the Romance

  • Michelle Vider
  • June 6, 2016
Writing for Open Letters Monthly, Rohan Maitzen reviews the conclusion of The Survivors’ Club, a seven-book romance series by Mary Balogh. Maitzen uses the series to explore the formulaic nature…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 24, 2016
A bookstore designed to feel like a spaceship has opened in Hangzhou, China. Romance-novel bookstore Ripped Bodice in Los Angeles has gotten a little funnier by adding live comedy shows.…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • May 10, 2016
An Estonian bookstore is removing Russian propaganda from its shelves after a request from Ukraine. Check out these amazing bookstores from around the world. The Observer shares some photos of The…
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Beyond the Surface

  • Jake Slovis
  • April 20, 2016
At the Guardian, Alison Flood wonders whether or not genre writing, particularly romance writing, is primarily “rubbish.” In her investigation, she points out how assumptions are often made about the…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 8, 2016
LAist takes readers inside Los Angeles’s iconic The Last Bookstore, a “sprawling temple” of books, and talks with owner Josh Spencer. A Hong Kong bookstore, one that hasn’t been closed…
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • October 27, 2015
Hong Kong is dominated by two kinds of bookstores—the independent shops specializing in political books and pornography banned by China and the shops secretly owned by Beijing’s communist government. A…
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“Happily Ever After” for African-American Romance Novelists

  • Christine Grimaldi
  • August 18, 2015
Romance novels can’t erase the past, and the present. Chapter by chapter, they do strive toward agency.
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