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The Hunger Games

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What to Read When Trying to Figure Out Who You Are

  • Terry H. Watkins
  • October 26, 2018
Terry H. Watkins shares a list of books to celebrate her novel, DARLING GIRL.
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The Rumpus Interview with Roxane Gay

  • Abigail Bereola
  • January 4, 2017
Roxane Gay discusses her new collection, Difficult Women, the problem with whiteness as the default and the need for diverse representation, and life as a workaholic.
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The Slow Fall of the Hot Heroine

  • Tabitha Blankenbiller
  • March 24, 2016
If nothing else, it’s the opinion of other women that encroaches on mine. Resemblances spark my joy; differences become character flaws.
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Sci-Fi =/= Unrealistic

  • Katie O'Brien
  • February 12, 2016
Tired of being met with condescension when she says she likes science fiction, Justina Ireland argues for science fiction’s importance in understanding very real contemporary issues faced by marginalized groups:…
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All Mixed Up

  • Roxie Pell
  • November 24, 2015
Is The Hunger Games feminist? Does it matter? Flavorwire’s Sarah Seltzer wonders whether we’re asking the wrong questions: It seduces us with a good-vs.-evil premise, but then muddies the entire…
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In a World…

  • Roxie Pell
  • August 4, 2015
With so many contemporary young adult novels taking place in dystopian settings, we’re beginning to wonder whether it’s even possible to come of age in a world that isn’t on…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Kill Bob

  • Alana Hauser
  • June 13, 2015
Kill Bill is revolutionary because it disrupts both content and genre, beautifully showcasing what these superhero-action stories so consistently overlook, while embodying the success of what the genre could achieve.
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg

  • Amy Feltman
  • February 23, 2015
Author Laura van den Berg talks to the Rumpus about why she thinks America is obsessed with dystopias, the intersection of surrealism and realism in her work, and choosing an ambiguous ending for her new novel, Find Me.
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The Battle Rages On

  • Alex Norcia
  • November 14, 2014
At Flavorwire, Jonathan Sturgeon continues the “literary” and “genre” war, offering a new perspective grounded in the marketplace: So what’s really going on here? Well, it isn’t the genre of…
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The Rumpus Interview with M.E. Thomas

  • Cynthia-Marie Marmo O'Brien
  • September 23, 2014
M.E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, discusses writing a memoir, being a lawyer and a Mormon, the unreliability of memory—and, of course, being a high-functioning sociopath.
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