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Motivation and Humanity: A Conversation with Carrie La Seur
Carrie La Seur’s remarkable second novel, The Weight of an Infinite Sky, opens with Anthony Fry’s return to his family’s Montana ranch after several hand-to-mouth years in New York City, where he was...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Lacking World
We’re sitting at a bar. Viola and I. Across from us is Miley, Viola’s friend from high school, and Miley’s husband. Aside from a few fries on Viola’s plate, we’re done with dinner and are sipping from...
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The Torment of Queer Literature
James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room sits on my bookshelf in slim melancholy. I’ve been meaning to read it for years. I’ve been circling it, scared. Baldwin’s face is on the cover; he’s not paying...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #153: Julie Schumacher
Several years back, a writer friend asked a literary agent what the marketability might be of her comical epistolary. “Unlikely” was the answer. Comedy is nearly impossible to pull off and novels...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ilya Kaminsky
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Ilya Kaminsky about his latest collection Deaf Republic (Graywolf Press, March 2019), This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. Every month the...
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Spines of the Finwomen
1. Water Creatures Some of you will remember the movie Creature From the Black Lagoon. The movie was made nine years before I was born, in 1954. I loved this movie so much I used to cry hysterically at...
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FUNNY WOMEN: Bumble Profiles of Literature’s Famous Ladies
Name: Jo March About: I’m on Bumble because I’m into women taking charge. I’m looking less for a boyfriend than a companion who will read quietly in the corner while I write my next novel and wait...
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Landscape as Mindscape: A Conversation with Michael Prior
The title of Michael Prior’s first book of poetry, Model Disciple, is apt description for the writer himself: Prior is a disciplined student of the poetic tradition, adept in sonnets, elegies,...
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Identification of the Hawk “It is a joy to be hidden and a disaster not to be found” —Donald Winnicott I am the tattered hawk eating the little songbird God left...
View ArticleThe Experience of Someone Else’s Brain: Aaron Angello’s The Fact of Memory
The Fact of Memory is a cerebral rumination in which one realizes that someone else’s brain-cud looks, smells, feels, tastes, and sounds much like one’s own. What I mean to say is that this book is...
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