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What Did You Expect, Though?
This spring the gland in my throat that sets the speed of change of every cell in my body started to fail. I shifted by the day, grew cheeks, lost memory, went dry and slick, lost hair where I wanted,...
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Heartbreak and Hair Dye: Talking with Amy Feltman
Amy Feltman and I met in graduate school, when we were both aspiring writers studying fiction writing at Columbia University. Even then, I admired Amy’s writing, particularly in the ways her characters...
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From One World to the Next: Talking with Julie Lythcott-Haims
I first met Julie Lythcott-Haims at the San Francisco Writers Grotto, a co-working community of authors with a history stretching back twenty-four years. Julie’s compassion, intelligence, and...
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from A Student of History
What can I say about that night at the museum, the first of many events I attended with Mrs. W—? It was both daunting and thrilling, all the more surreal because it happened in a place I knew. I’d been...
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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...
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Writing That Hurts: On Mark Doty’s Still Life with Oysters and Lemon
I spent the last year of graduate school meeting weekly with four other writers in our professor’s house on faculty row, a street of low-slung brick houses a short walk from campus. My professor was...
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How I Lived and Wrote in Las Vegas
1. When I tell people I lived in Las Vegas for three years while studying to write fiction in an MFA program at the University of Nevada, a short silence usually follows, before they blurt out...
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Trudging Down Death Road
Among the most important freedoms that we can have is the freedom from avoidable ill health and from escapable mortality. – Amartya Sen And when I die I shall not be forgotten. – Sappho Mama Fanta I...
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Circuitous Journeys: Talking with Sejal Shah
Sejal Shah’s debut essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance, forthcoming on June 1 from University of Georgia Press, is one of the most-anticipated memoirs of 2020. Growing up in Rochester, New York,...
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Grateful Maniacs: A Conversation with Dawn Davies
Dawn Davies and I arrived in the creative program at Florida International University around the same time—she as a dedicated student with a memoir to write and I as an Assistant Professor of Creative...
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