How Much We Will Never Know: A Conversation with Tyler Mills
If you can speak honestly about the risks you’re taking, it’s likely you’ll forge a deeper bond with your reader and your subject.
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Fiction, Grief, and Healing: A Conversation with Claire Oshetsky
I decided what the world needed was a novel with a big old bestial lesbian love affair in it.
Who Comes to the Ancestor Picnic?
With my flimsy paper plate overloaded, I take a seat with my parents and three generations of distant cousins. And here, the picnic’s real flavor emerges.
The Pawns of History Arise: Tania James’s Loot
What happens to the artist when his society shatters? How does he keep alive the impetus to create after losing his family and place in the world?
Songs of Reclamation: A Conversation with Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Music is massively important, and it’s layered in this book. It’s Bikini Kill. It’s Nirvana. But it’s also our spirit songs.
Going Home: An Excerpt From The Translator’s Daughter
On Tuesday, October 4, 2005, my mom was reported missing from her home.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Chris Crowder
I am trying to be less miserable, digging / for everything I have to write into my flesh.
Grief at the Verge of Revelation: A Conversation with Hala Alyan
What makes a life? Not even what makes a life worth living, but what makes a life a life.
Voices On Addiction: Incorrigible, A Love Story
I wanted to be good so my mother would love me. But I didn’t know how.
Finding A New “Happily Ever After”: Susan Ostrov’s Loveland
But for so many of us, love is “a puzzle with jig-sawed edges, and all we have are scattered, often missing, pieces of ourselves.
On Seeking the Woman Within: A Conversation with Lyn Patterson
My story is just one, but our unique perspectives contribute to creating a richer and more complex picture of our collective humanity.