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Voices on Addiction: All the Ways to Save Your Life

  • David M. Olsen
  • March 14, 2019
But we can make choices if we want to live. I believe that.
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Voices on Addiction: One More Conversation

  • Britt Canty
  • February 25, 2019
That’s how I felt again, then: a child suddenly fallen, helpless. Unable even to breathe.
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Voices on Addiction: The Five Cs

  • Penny Guisinger
  • September 11, 2018
The truth is different. The truth is always different.
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Pulling the Thread Through: Talking with Tina Alexis Allen

  • Iva-Marie Palmer
  • July 13, 2018
Tina Alexis Allen discusses her memoir, HIDING OUT.
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Voices on Addiction: A Review of The Recovering

  • Kerry Neville
  • June 19, 2018
As recovering addicts, we must love ourselves back to the source, love our shameful bits and decimations and not just our reconciliations and resurrections.
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Coming Clean

  • Ben Gwin
  • June 12, 2018
Intellectually, I know Gracie’s mom loves her and needs help. In practice, I just want my daughter safe.
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The Delusion of Objectivity: Talking with Leslie Jamison

  • Alana Massey
  • April 9, 2018
Leslie Jamison discusses The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, understanding that every text is incomplete, and whether motherhood has changed her writing.
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A Love Letter to Fuckhead

  • Justin Carroll-Allan
  • June 5, 2017
If you’re judging your characters, you’re not doing it right. I’ll always be grateful to [Denis] Johnson for teaching me that.
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Voices on Addiction: Twenty-Five

  • Elizabeth Crane
  • May 17, 2017
I know that there are those who would argue that alcoholism is a singularly extreme condition, and I get that, but I’ve always felt clear that there’s a lot of overlap between alcoholism and plain old ordinary humanity.
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The Rumpus Interview with Joshua Mohr

  • Jill Talbot
  • March 6, 2017
Joshua Mohr discusses his memoir Sirens, writing for his daughter, and why he values art that trusts its audience.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Daddy Issues

  • Gwen Werner
  • February 26, 2017
What I’m saying is I was a fucking wreck and it’s not my dad’s fault.
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The Rumpus Interview with Mila Jaroniec

  • Luke Wiget
  • February 15, 2017
Mila Jaroniec talks about her debut novel Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover,” writing autofiction, the surprising similarity between selling sex toys and selling books, and the impact of having a baby on editing.
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