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Dark and Light at the Same Time: A Conversation with Fariha Róisín
Few things excite and comfort me these days like a conversation with a like-minded woman who has found her voice. So it went with Fariha Róisín when we discussed her debut novel, Like a Bird (September...
View ArticleNot Looking Away: The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler
To begin, not as disclaimer but an acknowledgment: I am an ideal reader for The State She’s In, an unabashedly feminist book dedicated to “the Nasties.” Like the author, Lesley Wheeler, whom I have...
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Sleeping with Myself
fire ants course through the forest to eviscerate a carcass, this bite of time following that next one following on: the heart and the lungs and the intestines, winding themselves down the dark...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sheila Squillante
Sheila Squillante directs the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University, where she is Executive Editor of The Fourth River, a journal of nature and place-based writing She is the author of...
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Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney
In her debut memoir, The Other Mothers: Two Women’s Journey to Find the Family That Was Always Theirs, Jennifer Berney tells an intimate story of queer family-building. The book weaves Berney’s...
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Making a Shelter of Language: A Conversation with Bhaswati Ghosh
In August 1947, the Partition of India led to millions of Muslims moving out of India to either Bangladesh, then known as East Pakistan or to (West) Pakistan, and a similar number of Hindus migrated...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Mike Alberti
If Mike Alberti weren’t a fiction writer, I imagine he’d be a master builder, the kind with the square pencil behind his ear who constructs a house so every inch is level and sturdy and glowing. His...
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Spotlight: “Free the Nipple?”
If you stick your finger in the eye of the patriarchy, make sure to wash your hands. ***
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Fundamentally, Necessarily Vulnerable: A Conversation with jamie hood
Out last December from Grieveland is how to be a good girl, the debut book by jamie hood that was named a “Best Book of 2020“ by Vogue. This 170-page hybrid collection of poetry, diary entries, and...
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Process over Product: Midst and Craft in the Real World
Writers are obsessed with seeing other writers at work: the interviews of the Paris Review; the canonization of daily routines (Ursula K. Le Guin: “5:30 a.m.—wake up and lie there and think”); that...
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Everything Must Change: A Conversation with Melissa Febos
“We get to live for a while inside that new life,” Melissa Febos writes in the last essay, “Les Calanques,” in her new essay collection, Girlhood. When she arrives in Cassis, France, she writes of...
View ArticleLanguage Is the Spell: Kathryn Nuernberger’s The Witch of Eye
“I’m committed to believing women,” Kathryn Nuernberger writes toward the end of a book that begins by identifying women with the earth—both of them similarly at the mercy of a patriarchal paradigm. “I...
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Reimagining the Whole Damn World: A Conversation with Sonora Jha
Feminism, like yoga, is a practice, and perfection is an illusion. Novelist, critic, and essayist Sonora Jha and I met in the Seattle writing community. Once, we were invited to sit on a panel together...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Febos
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Melissa Febos about her new essay collection, Girlhood (Bloomsbury, March 2021), letting the book have its own life out in the world, learning to trust and be patient...
View ArticleHell Is a Young Man: Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent
At the college I attended, fraternities weren’t formally recognized by the administration. Without frat houses—the ramshackle, portico-embellished kind Animal House made famous—the boys had to display...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sayantani Dasgupta
Of the many books being published during the pandemic that take a joyous wickedness in celebrating unique women, Sayantani Dasgupta’s forthcoming collection, Women Who Misbehave, holds a very high...
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Kristy’s Invisible Hand and Das Baby-Sitters Club Kapital”
My first encounter with girls as ardent capitalists happened between the covers of Ann M. Martin’s Baby-Sitters Club books. The original series totaled 131 installments and from the series’ first page,...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Felicia Rose Chavez
Felicia Rose Chavez is at the forefront of anti-racist pedagogy. In her new book, The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom, Chavez combines her personal story with...
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That’s the Metaphor: A Conversation with Kendra Allen
Anyone who knows Kendra Allen, from her writing work to a chance encounter, quickly learns how pliant language is in her hands. Her first book, When You Learn the Alphabet, changed my relationship with...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Elizabeth Gonzalez James about her debut novel, Mona at Sea (Santa Fe Writers Project, June 2021), approaching difficult subjects like self-harm with humor, wanting to...
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