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The Rumpus Interview with Lacy M. Johnson
In her stunning memoir The Other Side, Lacy M. Johnson tells the story of being held prisoner in a soundproofed basement of her ex-boyfriend’s apartment. Though the violence in her book is easy to...
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I agree that The Other Side is, in part, about how I’ve learned to claim my body as my own, but it’s also about claiming my voice, and about how those two things are not as separate as you might...
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Change Ourselves, Change the World: Talking with Lacy M. Johnson
In her memoir The Other Side, Lacy M. Johnson unspooled the hardest story of her life, of being kidnapped and raped by who she calls “a man [she] used to love.” She told her story in all of its...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jeannie Vanasco
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jeannie Vanasco about her 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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