Creating Community in a Long Line of Feminist Literary Spaces: A Conversation with Marisa Crawford
My guideline for myself and my advice for others in terms of curating and editing is to be open and let the work that’s created guide you...
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“A Path to Happiness”: Commemorating Sex in Patrick Nathan’s The Future Was Color
Happiness, however temporary and intermittent, is emphasized as vitally important in the cited paragraph and throughout the novel, a rarity in a world steeped in destruction.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Mia S. Willis
the pink mink that matched cam’ron’s flip phone is / paparazzi primed and haunting my father’s closet
Causation and Carrier Bags: A Conversation with Nina Schuyler
Human exceptionalism is being challenged, and with that, there’s a growing public outcry that it’s time to care for our fellow creatures.
“There Is No Page That Can Hold Me”: Sam Sax’s Yr Dead
By insisting that Ezra’s ordinary life is epic, Sax shows that every life must be epic, holding everyone accountable. No one can sit out.
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Birdcage
It was like holding a lighter above a pool of gas. Something was on the verge of rupture.
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.
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?