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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #131: Lisa Wells

  • Emma Winsor Wood
  • April 12, 2018
"I always feel like I’m starting over. I don’t know how I ever wrote a poem. I really do have that feeling."
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Hindsight

  • Gerri Ravyn Stanfield
  • April 2, 2018
The morning snow turns to slush. I put on my glasses, but nothing seems clearer. I am hindsighted.
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Messy and Complicated and Real: Talking with Laura Pritchett

  • Carrie La Seur
  • March 9, 2018
Author Laura Pritchett discusses her two most recent books, death, sex, and being rural in modern America.
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In Defense of Sinead O’Connor

  • Eileen Toomey
  • March 1, 2018
“Remember Sinead?” I asked. My mom nodded her head and shrugged.
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Guns or No Guns: Mental Health Crisis in Schools

  • Genevieve Anna Tyrrell
  • February 26, 2018
I do the best I can to reach out to those I see isolated or disturbed, but I have to also be careful I don’t make myself a target.
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A Spirit Born into a Human Body: Talking with Akwaeke Emezi

  • Deesha Philyaw
  • February 21, 2018
Akwaeke Emezi discusses her debut novel, Freshwater, her public and private identities, and deciding when to translate culture for readers.
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The House of Fiction Has Many Rooms: Talking with Sigrid Nunez

  • Jess deCourcy Hinds
  • February 5, 2018
Sigrid Nunez discusses her seventh novel, The Friend, her fondness for writing about animals, and the ways the literary world has changed.
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The Sleepwalking American Male

  • David Anthony
  • January 18, 2018
Traumatized by dramatic, often violent change, American men become sleepwalkers precisely in order to flee the anxieties and responsibilities of life in democratic America.
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After the Telling

  • Cindy House
  • January 16, 2018
We want to protect our children from everything, even sometimes ourselves.
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The Miracle Bowl

  • Jennifer Givhan
  • December 4, 2017
Praise the family that tethers me. Praise the well-used kitchen utensils and scoured mixing bowls and butter knives, thick slabs of jelly on the bread.
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Album of the Week: Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Rest

  • Guia Cortassa
  • November 21, 2017
"I wasn’t scared about being personal. It’s an open dialogue to myself, to my sister, to my father."
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Drawing Close to the Void: Talking with Patty Yumi Cottrell

  • Maria Anderson
  • November 17, 2017
Patty Yumi Cottrell discusses her debut novel, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, how she accesses "the enraptured state" to write, and dreaming as an art form.
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