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Voices on Addiction: Nineteen

  • Mark Wallace
  • March 26, 2022
You'll look back and you'll think the scars seem almost invisible, like maybe they'll be gone one day. But then you'll realize you're just looking at the smaller ones, and yes, the bigger one is still right there.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Gonzalez James

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • July 21, 2021
Elizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Forsyth Harmon

  • Sarah Perry
  • March 4, 2021
“Yes: in terms of an authorial presence, I tried to tread lightly.”
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Affliction: On Finding Relief in Pain

  • Shreya Vikram
  • February 9, 2021
Hurting heightened everything, both within and without it.
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Weird and Grotesque and Disturbing: Talking with Elizabeth Gonzalez James

  • Mary Pauline Lowry
  • February 1, 2021
Elizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
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Some of the Places I Am Stuck

  • Cameron Gorman
  • January 12, 2021
I lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
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The Fluidity of Language and Identity: Melissa Faliveno’s Tomboyland

  • Melinda Copp
  • December 30, 2020
When was the first time you remember seeing yourself in a book you were reading?
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The Cost of Liberation: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn

  • Keishel Williams
  • October 14, 2020
Patsy’s imagined freedom in America, she discovers almost immediately, was an illusion.
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Bring the Inward Outward: Talking with Greg Mania

  • Elle Nash
  • August 24, 2020
Greg Mania discusses his debut memoir, BORN TO BE PUBLIC.
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Milked

  • Veena Dinavahi
  • August 4, 2020
I mourn for my body, for the toll the world has taken on it.
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Permadeath

  • Marlin M. Jenkins
  • June 16, 2020
All your efforts and still you must reckon with this end.
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Fields of Light

  • Vanessa Nirode
  • May 18, 2020
Light reflects differently off near and faraway objects. It’s all about the light.
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