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Aswang as a Second Language

  • Ella deCastro Baron
  • October 28, 2019
She holds me. We hold each other.
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Portals

  • Elizabeth Bevilacqua
  • May 2, 2019
Portals, as my aunt calls them, are like rings of time orbiting one another.
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Closing the Loop: Sophia Shalmiyev’s Mother Winter

  • Margaret Malone
  • February 27, 2019
I am mother. I am child. I am mother. The overlapping, hard-won truth—victim either way, saved either way.
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  • Marissa Korbel
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Unspeakable Mothers: Talking with Sophia Shalmiyev

  • Marissa Korbel
  • February 11, 2019
Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her debut memoir, MOTHER WINTER.
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Circling Backwards, Snaking Sideways: Talking with Sharlene Teo

  • Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada
  • October 3, 2018
Sharlene Teo discusses her debut novel, PONTI.
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Heartbeat Detected

  • Chelsey Clammer
  • October 12, 2017
I don’t want to say “calculated conversations.” I don’t want to say “I push my needs away.” I don’t want to admit I can’t control how our interactions go.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #88: Sarah Gerard

  • Enma Elias
  • June 15, 2017
Sarah Gerard’s dazzling second book, Sunshine State, is a collection of essays interlacing narrative nonfiction and personal essay. The thirty-one year old Brooklynite teaches nonfiction and writes a monthly column…
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Ian Svenonius’s “Principles of Modernism”

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • December 15, 2016
[T]he most essential thing is actually a kind of worldview, a mindset—or maybe it’s an ideology.
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A Man’s ABCs of Miscarriage

  • Elison Alcovendaz
  • October 12, 2016
I once heard the only thing faster than the speed of light is the speed of thought, and I wonder if simply thinking about Sawyer’s sister until my head hurts could get us to the place we fear talking about.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Benji Hughes’s Pareidolia

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • March 17, 2016
Love is irrational and it’s supernatural. It’s also probably what we want/need most.
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