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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jeannie Vanasco
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jeannie Vanasco about new memoir, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl (Tin House, October 2019), writing about trauma, the importance of the FBI’s revised...
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Anger Is the Engine: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger
Five years ago, before Trump became president, best-selling author Gillian Flynn told Glamour: “You see men blow up all the time, and it’s not a big deal. But if a woman does it, either she’s crazy or...
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View ArticleExpunging the Bogeyman: Sady Doyle’s Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
Dare I say that 2019 is the year of righteous female anger? This year, I’ve observed that the power of women’s rage is finally taking center stage: two years after the resurgence of the #MeToo...
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Energizing the Choir: A Conversation with Lindy West
Lindy West is not here to fuck around. In her second book, The Witches Are Coming, an insightful collection of essays out tomorrow from Hachette, West deftly covers a smorgasbord of American culture’s...
View ArticleENOUGH: Reporting My Rape
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Otherwordly: Talking with Rosebud Ben-Oni
Rosebud Ben-Oni is talking with me about quantum mechanics, her face so filled with passionate curiosity, she is glowing on my computer screen. Her cadence is quick and she moves on to the subject of...
View ArticleENOUGH: This Tongue Knows Survival
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The Thread: Ghosts at the Door
I remember watching the white Bronco driving down an empty freeway, followed by a police escort. My grandparents’ den. Sitting on the soft beige carpet. We had just arrived for a visit and found my...
View ArticleENOUGH: Original Fiction: The Lines of the Space Between Us
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View ArticleENOUGH: If No One’s There to Hear It
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Love Story as Case Study: A Conversation with Rheea Mukherjee
Nearly ten years ago, Rheea Mukherjee and I met as students in the graduate creative writing program at California College for the Arts in San Francisco. We became fast friends; I was fascinated by...
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ENOUGH: Crime and Composure
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
View ArticleA Gripping, Limited Call to Arms: Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments
For years, Margaret Atwood resisted the notion of writing a sequel to her feminist classic The Handmaid’s Tale. She first began considering the possibility after 9/11, when, as Atwood told The Current,...
View ArticleENOUGH: What Does It Mean to Survive?
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View ArticleENOUGH: What I Remember / What I Don’t Remember
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View ArticleAgency and Wonder: Amina Cain’s Indelicacy
To read Amina Cain is to enter tide pools of the mind. On its surface, her fiction is quiet, lovely, contained, but sit with any passage and that which seems still uncoils and comes alive. The reach of...
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No One Is Disposable: Talking with Emma Copley Eisenberg
Emma Copley Eisenberg’s stunning debut, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia, in which she chronicles her time living in Pocahontas County, West Virginia and delves...
View ArticleENOUGH: Leaving Buffalo Behind
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Language Is Material: A Conversation with Simon(e) van Saarloos
I discovered Simon(e) van Saarloos, coincidentally, through an Instagram post from Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks, who has written the foreword to van Saarloos’s Playing Monogamy, translated to...
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