To Err Is Human
A memoir of the war in Afghanistan asks questions about war and responsibility and what it means to be an American after 9/11.Writing a memoir raises a few important questions: Why write it? Why...
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A memoir of life as a disappointed fan becomes a meditation on “isolation and the things we do to overcome our loneliness… emptiness, and not knowing how to fill it.”Editor’s Note: The Rumpus is...
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It takes a writer with a background like Chanan Tigay’s—son of a noted Bible scholar, professor of nonfiction, with a distinguished career in journalism and an MFA in fiction for good measure—to...
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