“stones will know”: On Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood
Hood wonders how to write rape and its aftermath when its very nature is fragmentation, a form that disqualifies it as a story.
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A Poetics of Witness: Jeddie Sophronius’s Interrogation Records
Sophronius writes from an awareness of Chinese Indonesian marginality, yet the pulse of the collection’s counternarrative coheres around an Indonesian national identity.
Rumpus Original Fiction: I Couldn’t Say It Was Tuesday
“You need to watch the news. Aren’t you interested in the world? Very important to know what’s going on in the world.”
Redefining Memoir: A Conversation with Jackie Domenus
For queer and trans writers, our narratives are usually not traditional or linear.
What to Read When Walking Through a Graveyard
What is lost so that a book may live? What is shoveled so that a memoir may memorialize?
Unearthing the Sediment of Stories in Our Bodies: An Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
When I’m inside creativity or making art, it feels like a worthy place for a person like me to spend her life.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Gabrielle Spear
"'Words matter. They have the power to kill.'"
There Would Still Be Love: A Conversation with Matthew Nienow
I’m committed to and interested in this kind of deep accountability and honesty.
On Snorting Human Remains
One of my friends, Enzo, had just died, and he’d probably felt a similar way, invincible and lost.
To Write about the Way You Read is to Write about the Way You Live: A Conversation with Sarah Chihaya
...to write about the way I read, I also had to write about the way I lived