Two Books for the Frozen Sea: A Conversation with Megan Stielstra
Megan Stielstra discusses her recently rereleased books EVERYONE REMAIN CALM and ONCE I WAS COOL.
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What to Read When You’re Writing Speculative Memoir
Laraine Herring shares a reading list to celebrate A CONSTELLATION OF GHOSTS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Laraine Herring
“That’s the power of art, I think. It is transformative. It can love us all back home.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger discusses her debut essay collection, NEGATIVE SPACE.
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What to Read When You’re in the In-Between Place
Suleika Jaouad shares a reading list to celebrate BETWEEN TWO KINGDOMS.
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What to Read When You’re Living in a Female Body
Marcia Trahan shares a reading list to celebrate MERCY: A MEMOIR OF MEDICAL TRAUMA AND TRUE CRIME OBSESSION.
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What to Read When You’re Transforming
Laura Bogart shares a reading list to celebrate DON’T YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erin Khar
Erin Khar discusses her debut memoir, STRUNG OUT.
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No Resolutions: Talking with Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her new story collection, VERGE.
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Hearing a Novella/Reading an Album: Talking with Katharine Coldiron
Katharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.
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What to Read When You’re Trying to Exist in an After
Kelly Sundberg shares a reading list to celebrate the paperback release of GOODBYE, SWEET GIRL.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with T Kira Madden
T Kira Madden discusses her debut memoir, LONG LIVE THE TRIBE OF FATHERLESS GIRLS.
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What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Women’s History
Rumpus editors share their favorite writing that speaks to women’s history past, present, and future.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #166: T Kira Madden
“I want to always fight for art, not against it.”
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What to Read When You Want to Raise Your Voice in Revolution
Reema Zaman shares a list of books to celebrate her forthcoming debut memoir, I AM YOURS.
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Becoming Her Own Cowboy: Talking with Pam Houston
Pam Houston discusses her new memoir, DEEP CREEK: FINDING HOPE IN THE HIGH COUNTRY.
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What to Read When Straightforward Stories Aren’t Enough
Brittany Hailer shares a list of books to celebrate her debut, THE ANIMAL YOU’LL SURELY BECOME.
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What to Read When You Want Strong Women Who Refuse to Shut Up About Sexuality
Steph Auteri shares a list of books to celebrate her book, A DIRTY WORD.
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What to Read When You Want to Reclaim Your Time
Books that center us and offer new perspectives.
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The Thread: Goddesses and Monsters
Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #123: Erica Garza
“[T]here was something really empowering about being honest and open about this part of myself. Somehow, writing helped lessen the shame.”
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What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Rape
A list of memoirs, fiction, poetry collections, and nonfiction that deal with rape culture and the many ways that is shapes our society and the women and men who live within it.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
Lidia Yuknavitch discusses her latest book, The Small Backs of Children, war, art, the chaos of experience, and that photograph of the vulture stalking the dying child in the Sudan that won the Pulitzer Prize.
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No Comment
An hour later. Still empty. This bothers me. I am embarrassed that it bothers me. But not embarrassed enough that it stops me from checking again.
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The Rumpus Interview with Elizabeth Scarboro and Lidia Yuknavitch
Both Yuknavitch and Scarboro, whose books echo each other in interesting ways, were willing to talk with me about this question of what to do with memoir, and much more.
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The Rumpus Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
Genevieve Hudson talks with Lidia Yuknavitch about her new book, Dora: A Headcase, the body as the first novel, and violence in female characters.
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The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch opens with a sad, heart-wrenching story of a stillborn baby.
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Chelsea Cain’s introduction to Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water, which is the Rumpus Book Club’s March selection: Lidia and I are in therapy together. That’s what she calls it. Technically it is more of a writing workshop, at least that’s what the rest of us would like to think.
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