Art, Love, and Resistance in 1940s Europe: Talking with Meg Waite Clayton
Meg Waite Clayton discusses her new novel, THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS.
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Posts Tagged: World War II
Investigative but Intimate: A Conversation with Robert L. Shuster
Robert L. Shuster discusses his debut novel, TO ZENZI.
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Landscape as Mindscape: A Conversation with Michael Prior
Michael Prior discusses his new collection of poetry, BURNING PROVENCE.
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On Collective Trauma and Resilience: Talking with S. Kirk Walsh
S. Kirk Walsh discusses her debut novel, THE ELEPHANT OF BELFAST.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise
For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
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Reading the Landscape of the Past: Jessica J. Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest
Learning to read a landscape can reveal a deep history.
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What to Read When You Want to Remember World War II
Linda Kass shares a reading list to celebrate A RITCHIE BOY.
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Trauma as Inheritance: Adam P. Frankel’s The Survivors
The survivor is left to ponder whom he has become.
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Cultural Attunement and “Otherness”: A Conversation with Aimee Liu
Aimee Liu discusses her new novel, GLORIOUS BOY.
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The Promise of Werfel’s Musa Dagh: Portraying Genocide in Fiction
How does a fictional account come to stand in for history?
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Resistance Against Erasure: Talking with Marianne Chan
Marianne Chan discusses her debut poetry collection, ALL HEATHENS.
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Violence and Human Reality: Talking with Szczepan Twardoch
Szczepan Twardoch discusses his novel, THE KING OF WARSAW.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #220: Jennifer Steil
“Ultimately art is about making sense of our brief lives on earth.”
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Each Story Matters: Talking with Hadley Freeman
Hadley Freeman discusses her new memoir, HOUSE OF GLASS.
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How Patterns Break: Talking with Linda Bierds
Poet Linda Bierds discusses her newest collection, THE HARDY TREE.
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A Beautiful Silver Screen: Amanda Lee Koe’s Delayed Rays of a Star
[W]hat lies beneath the arcing paths of these stars, fueling and frustrating them?
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The Itch to Write: Talking with Courtney Maum
Courtney Maum discusses her new novel, COSTALEGRE.
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Introducing Lamoishe and Hezbollah Schoenfeld
I nearly got disowned over my decision not to pass on the family name.
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The Invisible Story Beneath the Story: A Conversation with Catherine Chung
Catherine Chung discusses her second novel, THE TENTH MUSE.
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Through the Translator’s Lens: Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough’s Objects of Affection
For Hryniewicz-Yarbrough, language provides a stronger connection with the past than nationality alone.
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We Create Our Own Monsters: Talking with Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto discusses her newest book, SHADOW CHILD.
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Salt of the Earth: A Conversation with John Lingan
John Lingan discusses his new book, HOMEPLACE.
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Reading Ferlinghetti in the Age of Trump
This lesson feels especially relevant to our moment: that it’s possible to be both a frustrated activist and also a present and joyful human being.
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The Family Novel
What you cannot put into words cannot become a lie.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #124: Anne Raeff
“I guess that’s true when you write a novel, you end up taking out so much.”
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The Sleepwalking American Male
The Thread: Ways of Being Seen
Can you see it now? Is the image different in your mind yet? A thing you can’t unsee.
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Shifting Histories: Belladonna by Daša Drndić
The past may be riddled with holes, but it cannot be dispensed with as easily as possessions.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #103: Andrew Battershill
Picture the French Surrealists recast as mobsters running a crime ring and you have the premise for Batterhill’s story.
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Wisdom Is a Double-Edged Sword: Talking with Jay Baron Nicorvo
Jay Baron Nicorvo discusses his debut novel, The Standard Grand, how easy it is for civilians to forget about soldiers and veterans, and his longstanding love of animals.
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