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Breathing into the Paper Bag: Talking with Jenny Valentish
Slough, England is the setting for the BBC comedy series The Office, and the childhood home of journalist and author Jenny Valentish, who calls it “anhedonia-made-concrete.” It’s in this inauspicious...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Idra Novey
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Idra Novey about her second novel, Those Who Knew (Viking, November 2018), its unconventional structure, and how becoming a parent changes the ways we write. This is an...
View ArticleENOUGH: The Price of Silence
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Tracing a Lineage of Violence: Talking with D.M. Aderibigbe
Divided into six distinct sections, How the End First Showed, D.M. Aderibigbe’s first full-length poetry collection, follows a multigenerational chronology of familial violence. Primarily set in Lagos,...
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To Love a Place: Talking with Susan Blumberg-Kason
In 2013, both my novel and Susan Blumberg-Kason’s memoir had just debuted, and our books were repeatedly placed on book lists featuring white female protagonists and Asian male love interests. We met...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #160: Kimberly Dark
A hybrid of culture critique, magical realism, and BDSM, Kimberly Dark’s The Daddies (Brill, October 2018) is a kaleidoscopic love letter to masculinity. Though The Daddies tells the story of one...
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Art in Resistance: A Conversation with Martha Rosler
For half a century, Martha Rosler has taken on war, racism, oppression, gentrification, and income inequality—rarely in isolation—with uncompromising integrity and deadpan humor. The current survey at...
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Lessons for Female Success
Lesson One: By horrible example, a woman learns how not to get killed. I am a teenager, working at a summer camp near Huntsville, Ontario. It is the mid-nineties and I am wearing an orange and green...
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Jane Austen in Pakistan: A Conversation with Soniah Kamal
Soniah Kamal’s second novel, Unmarriageable, forthcoming from Ballantine Books on January 22, is a delightful rendition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, transported to Pakistan. Set in the...
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Our Madness: Talking with Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Medical science versus personal experience, wellness versus illness, genetics versus environment, free will versus determinism—these are a few of the binaries Sarah Fawn Montgomery dismantles in her...
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Lilies of the Valley
The first time someone tried to seduce me, I was twenty-one and so shy that I didn’t realize a seduction was happening until I was right in the thick of it. I’d gone for dinner at the house of a man...
View ArticleENOUGH: Do You Understand?
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Becoming Her Own Cowboy: Talking with Pam Houston
If Cowboys Are My Weakness was Pam Houston’s call to millions of women—blasting us with self-recognition of how we give away our own power—then her new book is the response to that call. With Deep...
View ArticleENOUGH: This Letter Isn’t for You
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View ArticleENOUGH: A Bonfire of Blossoms, A Pile of Ash
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The Thread: Grown-Up Little Girls
When I was a child, I was often told by well-meaning adults that I was wise beyond my years. I think it was a compliment. They meant I was mature, or that I didn’t seem nine years old. I read a lot. I...
View ArticleENOUGH: I Smiled at A Man: An Anecdote
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The Language of What Happened to Us
I was in college, engaged and planning my wedding, and back home in Virginia on the last break I would have before I finished finals and returned for my wedding. The twelve-year-old I was babysitting...
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