Like a Phoenix or a Unicorn
At the Times Literary Supplement, Edmund Gordon shares an excerpt of The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography, about Angela Carter’s time in Japan: the vertigo-inducing flight, what she loved and...
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Notable Portland: 2/2–2/8
Thursday 2/2: Reed College Professor and PDX Jazz Board Member Pancho Savery will host a reading and lecture on the music that shines through the eras, “The Political Implications of James Baldwin’s...
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What If We Were Allowed to Do Anything We Wanted?: A Conversation with Clare...
Clare Beams’s debut short story collection, We Show What We Have Learned (Lookout Books), has garnered praise from Joyce Carol Oates, the New York Times, and O, The Oprah Magazine. A finalist for the...
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This Is What I Get for Wanting
Before 2017, the last Valentine’s Day I’d spent with a significant other was easily a decade ago. In the years between, Valentine’s Day has passed with little to no fanfare other than a twinge of...
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HORN! REVIEWS: The Bloody Chamber
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What to Read When Straightforward Stories Aren’t Enough
My debut collection, Animal You’ll Surely Become, is a blue-collar fairy tale. A work of poetry and nonfiction, it explores a broken family system, addiction, and sexual trauma. My father is a sexual...
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What to Read When You’re Transforming
Transformation is a thunderclap within a finger snap, a quick transition into something startling and expected. Or it is the slow process of a seed muscling into new forms under the earth, inevitable,...
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What to Read When You Suspect That Time Is Not a Line
I am a late bloomer in every imaginable way. I earned an MFA at thirty-six, a PhD at forty-four, and when my first two books release (September 2020 and May 2021), I will be forty-six. Maybe my own...
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What to Read When the Story Refuses to End
Once upon a time, I was a ballerina. This was before I saw that one glance at my mom—a robust woman of German stock—betrayed any such reality. Regardless of how coordinated or hardworking an Amazon...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Andrew Bertaina
Andrew Bertaina’s character-driven short stories are filled with people who are longing for love and connection, in a world where emotional fulfillment feels just out of reach. These tangled yearnings...
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