The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Felicia Rose Chavez
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...moreAnnie Connole shares a reading list to celebrate THE SPRING.
...moreSergio Troncoso discusses his new anthology, NEPANTLA FAMILIAS.
...moreAngie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
...moreMelissa Matthewson shares a reading list to celebrate TRACING THE DESIRE LINE.
...moreKali Fajardo-Anstine discusses her debut story collection, SABRINA & CORINA.
...moreA list of books to celebrate the release of the forthcoming anthology, Everyday People: The Color of Life!
...moreA list from Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters to celebrate the release of This Is the Place: Women Writing about Home.
...moreThe sensibilities of whiteness do not want us to work, do not want us to think, do not want us to imagine outside of its bounds.
...moreErika T. Wurth talks about her latest book, Buckskin Cocaine, persevering through rejection, and white writers writing Native characters.
...moreHere is a list of books that help remind us what actually makes America great (hint: it’s not tax cuts).
...moreRachel Martin, host of the NPR series Next Chapter, sits down with Sandra Cisneros, beloved author of The House on Mango Street, to reflect on Cisneros’s experience of moving into her first apartment. Cisneros speaks on the independence she found away from her “father’s roof,” and delivers brilliant wisdom on how to accept loneliness, how to […]
...moreSandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street, talks about her new memoir, A House of My Own, living in a post-9/11 era, and the necessity of heartbreak.
...moreElectric Literature posted a conversation with author Sandra Cisneros, in which she talks about books and their healing power, and the importance of poetry today: This is a time for poetry. Poets are the ones who are always called to speak the truth, to say the most courageous things and write from that room that bypasses the […]
...moreThe novella-in-flash: What does it mean? How is it even possible? Kathleen Rooney and Abby Beckel, editors at Rose Metal Press, which specializes in hybrid forms, have recently set about defining this lesser-known form. This week, they spoke about My Very End of the Universe, their 2014 anthology of five novellas-in-flash, with Smokelong Quarterly’s Interviews […]
...moreDaisy Hernández talks about her new memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed, feminism, bilingual writing, and working in both the fiction and nonfiction genres.
...moreThis week’s Sunday Rumpus essay made me especially attuned to other pieces that touch on immigration and power differentials. In “On Publishing a First Memoir,” Daisy Hernandez recalls a teenaged boy, an artist, who was in the U.S. without papers when he won a contest. “He walked onto that stage, and for the first time, […]
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