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As a Matter of Fact

  • Luna Adler
  • December 6, 2017
Why show the mundanity of your life when you can make it glitter?
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Febos

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • April 5, 2017
Melissa Febos discusses her new book Abandon Me, choosing to be celibate for six months, letting go of our own mythologies, and the sexist reaction women receive when they write nonfiction.
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A Proof for Truth

  • Laura Laing
  • March 7, 2017
Truth is perspective—a plane or a sphere—which makes it feel slippery. Truth is not absolute in the ways that we want it to be.
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The Mirror’s Shards

  • Siobhan Leddy
  • February 28, 2017
In the face of colossal and destructive political lies, we need a more nuanced understanding of the world than simply truth versus lie.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: No Wound

  • Shamala Gallagher
  • December 31, 2016
Maybe I can touch it and show it to you. If I convince you, we can call it real. And then perhaps it will be.
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The Rumpus Interview with Ben Ehrenreich

  • Melissa Chadburn
  • August 26, 2016
Ben Ehrenreich, author of The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine, discusses oppression, objectivity in journalism, and millennial politics.
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Truth in Animation

  • Brandon Hicks
  • June 26, 2016
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There Is No Such Thing as a True Story

  • Ellen Urbani
  • March 1, 2016
Perspective is a fickle beast, and memory is an unreliable traveling companion through the years.
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Necessity of Truth

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • February 29, 2016
Over at Book Riot, Hannah Engler discusses memoir, when the absolute truth is necessary, and why it is okay—even unavoidable—to fabricate facts: Fabrication is inherent in memoir writing. Number one, it’s…
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #19: Truth

  • Anna March
  • February 17, 2016
Truth—a higher, bigger truth—is what I want when I read. I want to nod my head in radical understanding. I want to grasp our complex, fragile humanity better. I want…
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Truth or Consequences

  • Guia Cortassa
  • February 2, 2016
I was a kid. In many ways, I’m still a kid, trapped in the extended adolescence of the post-irony, post-sincerity millennial era; I came of age in America under the…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Valuation Methods

  • Rachel Wilkinson
  • December 5, 2015
In some of my fantasies, I make a pitch for art or for truth, defend them like commodities.
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