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Community Destroyed, Memories Reconstructed: A Conversation with Vivian Gibson

  • Morgan Forde
  • October 21, 2020
Vivian Gibson discusses her debut memoir, THE LAST CHILDREN OF MILL CREEK.
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Against Respectability: A Conversation with Raven Leilani

  • Monet Patrice Thomas
  • August 17, 2020
Raven Leilani discusses her debut novel, LUSTER.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lauren J. Sharkey

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • July 22, 2020
Lauren J. Sharkey discusses her debut novel, INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Mother We Share

  • Ilana Masad
  • January 29, 2020
This is what happens when I listen. I react.
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Words as Events: A Conversation with Jeff Wood

  • Selina Scheumann
  • September 1, 2017
Jeff Wood discusses The Glacier, his genre-bending book combining novel, poetry, screenplay, and collage, how heritage has become a brand, and the American Midwest.
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Misfits and Marriage: Talking with Taylor Larsen

  • Michele Filgate
  • July 31, 2017
Taylor Larsen discusses her debut novel, Stranger, Father, Beloved, writing about New England, falling in love with her characters, and the surprises of debut authorship.
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: Claudia Cortese Discusses Wasp Queen

  • Melissa Adamo
  • April 21, 2017
Poet Claudia Cortese talks about her new book Wasp Queen and Lucy, the rebellious 90s teen whose voice inspired the collection.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Adrian Matejka

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • April 18, 2017
Adrian Matejka discusses his new collection Map to the Stars, writing about poverty in contemporary poetry, and how racism maintains its place in our society.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • April 11, 2017
The Wild Rumpus (no relation), a children’s bookstore in Minneapolis, was named the bookstore of the year by Publishers Weekly. Minneapolis is also the third most literate city in the US, taking…
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John Cheever Could Never Be a Single Mother

  • Victor Luo
  • October 6, 2016
John Cheever, known as the “Chekov of the suburbs” for his fiction’s signature focus on the domestic, suburban family life in the 40s and 50s, probably couldn’t hack being a single…
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Breaking and Burning

  • Kathleen Buckley
  • May 16, 2016
They pin him down and I stick him. I am relentless. This disease is relentless. And I am so pissed off.
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How A Neighborhood is Made

  • Theodora Messalas
  • May 6, 2016
For The Towner, Chantal Clarke muses on the in-betweenness of her childhood home of Pelham, New York and “the day-to-day policing of boundaries” that make up the seedy work of…
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