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You’re in the Hands of a Pro: The Goat Fish and the Lover’s Knot by Jack Driscoll

The characters in this collection frequently daydream about time. Children and teens want to speed it up so life can start. Grown-ups ask time to slow, or rewind to get some of it back.

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What If We Were Allowed to Do Anything We Wanted?: A Conversation with Clare Beams

Clare Beams on We Show What We Have Learned and the “living strangeness” of short fiction.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #97: Peg Alford Pursell

Peg Alford Pursell discusses SHOW HER A FLOWER, A BIRD, A SHADOW, openness, brevity, lyricism, and the benefit of dwelling in our emotions.

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In Between the In-Between: Talking with Jenny Zhang

Jenny Zhang discusses her story collection Sour Heart, trying to escape the past, collective versus individual responsibility for trauma, and love as imprisonment.

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Bodies Testing Boundaries: The Worlds We Think We Know by Dalia Rosenfeld

The Worlds We Think We Know by Dalia Rosenfeld is a profound debut that carefully undermines the foundational assumptions we have about other people.

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As Long as What Is Said Is Understood: Talking with Lesley Nneka Arimah

Lesley Nneka Arimah discusses her debut collection What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, mother-daughter relationships, and the pleasures of genre fiction.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Achy Obejas

Achy Obejas discusses her new collection, The Tower of the Antilles, what she's learned from translating works of others, and why we should all read poetry every day.

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This Week in Short Fiction

In “Stevie Versus the Negative Space” by Bonnie Chau at The Offing this week, a young woman tries to define herself through a familiar and flawed lens: her relationships with…

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Making a Narrative in the Darkness: A Conversation with Samantha Hunt

Samantha Hunt discusses her new collection, The Dark Dark, why she became a writer, and the freeing quiet of darkness.

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Finding Comfort in the Discomfort: Talking with Juan Martinez

Juan Martinez discusses his debut collection Best Worst American, his relationship to the English language, and why Nabokov ruined his writing for years.

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This Week in Short Fiction

This week, the latest issue of Gulf Coast has a new Carmen Maria Machado short story about body acceptance—or, rather, the opposite. In “Eight Bites,” a woman decides to undergo…

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