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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger
I’d first read Lilly Dancyger’s Negative Space last summer, and rereading it in advance of our conversation revealed new layers of what I’d loved the first time around. As someone who, like Lilly’s...
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Claiming Our Untold Stories: Talking with Gina Frangello
That Gina Frangello survived the past decade is astonishing; that she’s also emerged from the challenges of the past decade with one of this year’s best memoirs is miraculous. The experience of reading...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lilly Dancyger
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Lilly Dancyger about her debut memoir, Negative Space (Santa Fe Writers Project, May 2021), the book’s long road to publication, learning that conflicting truths can...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Laraine Herring
When Laraine Herring and I were in graduate school together twenty years ago, I had a dream in which we found our way to a swimming pool. The chlorinated water was teeming with giant sea serpents, and...
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Pick Your Pleasure: Talking with Liz Asch
Liz Asch’s book of erotica, Your Salt on My Lips, out now from Cleis Press, slams into the sweet spot between poetry and raw body courage. A painter, essayist, podcast creator, and licensed...
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What to Read When You’re Writing Speculative Memoir
You’re looking around your room, wondering if that’s a ghost you see behind the curtain, or if it’s just your imagination. Then you wonder why you put a “just” before your imagination. As if...
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Two Books for the Frozen Sea: A Conversation with Megan Stielstra
Megan Stielstra is a beloved writer across the nation, but especially in Chicago, where she writes, teaches, and performs. She’s the author of Everyone Remain Calm, Once I Was Cool, and The Wrong Way...
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What to Read When 2022 Is Just Around the Corner
It’s true that 2021 was a year that challenged all of us in so very many ways, but it was also a banner year for reading (find some of our favorite books from the year here and here). While we know...
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This was originally published at The Rumpus on August 22, 2012. During the month of June 2022, we’re highlighting some of our favorite work from The Rumpus archives to show readers how the magazine has...
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The Most-Read Essays of 2022
Essays are all about reflection, and we thought we’d kick off 2023 with a look at the most-read pieces of last year. It can sometimes feel like hours (years) of hard work disappear into the maw of our...
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