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On People Pleasing
I learned to smile even when I didn't feel like it, to reassure people and make them feel at ease.
How to Get Unstuck: A Conversation with Julia Phillips
When danger comes close to you, how do you react to it? How do you push back against it or cooperate with it?
The Archive as Potter’s Field: Hannah Regel’s The Last Sane Woman
As the handwritten stories unfold, the lives of the two ceramicists come closer and closer.
Tension Is Where the Heartbeat Is: A Conversation with Dorinda Wegener
Tension is where the heartbeat is. It’s the energy of it all, the electricity, the love.
What to Read When You Want to be Changed by a Work of Art
Some of the work is simply slowing down visitors and sustaining their attention long enough for the pieces to click together, or for their perspective to shift, or for a light bulb to—literally—go off.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Marisa Tirado
More poems that make me uncomfortable / with the slant of the world! Follow it to the fold!
The First Book: Marcela Fuentes
I’m writing for anyone who likes a messy, drama-filled story with secrets and hilarious family problems, but also for my Latinx community.
There’s Always a Little Light, a Glimmer of Hope: A Conversation with Annell López
I wanted to write characters who confront their humanity—all of it, but especially the ugly and visceral parts, and get to have the “release” we all deserve.
The Great Man and The Wife: On Controlling the Narrative in Sarah Manguso’s Liars
Marriage and motherhood become like invasive species that coil around Jane’s career, leeching her of energy and creative drive.