| This Week from The Rumpus |
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- Letters in the Mail (from authors!) courtesy of Melissa Febos
- New Interview with María Medem by Eliza Harris
- New Review of Jeanne Thorton's A / S / L by Erin Vachon
- Veena Dinavahi discusses the publication of her debut memoir for The First Book
- New Fiction by Connor White and Katie McIvor
- New Essays by Jen Shepherd and Karen Babine
- New original Poetry by Katherine Tunning
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Interviews & Reviews
“It’s like I’m a tightrope walker, and my text is the cord.”
Eliza Harris interviews María Medem about Land of Mirrors
“A/S/L offers creative pathways to radical change.”
Erin Vachon reviews Jeanne Thornton’s A/S/L
“Make your own meaning. It sounds cliché, but I’ve come to accept it as a survival skill.”
Veena Dinavahi discusses the publication of her memoir The True Happiness Company for The First Book |
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| Letters in the Mail (from authors!) |
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Letters in the Mail from authors is a Rumpus subscription in which you receive an actual, postmarked letter from one of our favorite writers in your IRL mailbox twice a month. All letters are non-promotional, include a creative prompt, and have a return mailing address in case you'd like to write the author back!
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June 1: Melissa Febos is the nationally bestselling author of four books, including Girlhood—which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, and Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative. She has been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, LAMBDA Literary, the National Endowment for the Arts, the British Library, the Black Mountain Institute, the Bogliasco Foundation, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Best American Essays, Vogue, The Sewanee Review, New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. Febos is a full professor at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City with her wife, the poet Donika Kelly. Subscribe by May 31! |
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