What to Read When Trying to Figure Out Who You Are
Terry H. Watkins shares a list of books to celebrate her novel, DARLING GIRL.
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Personal to Universal: Robin Becker’s The Black Bear Inside Me
Becker stands firmly on the shoulder of earlier lesbian-feminist poets while inhabiting and describing our current era of new challenges and old shibboleths.
Learning to Co-Exist with Fear: A Conversation with Vivek Shraya
Vivek Shraya discusses her new book, I'M AFRAID OF MEN.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #151: David Shields
“Antidote to Trump? Whole book is an attempt to find one.”
The Queer Syllabus: Threshold by Joseph O. Legaspi
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Andrés Cerpa
I have stood above the labyrinth / & touched what is not there
Straddling the Divide: Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Interior States
The entire collection is suffused by an aching awareness of absence and an obsession with the indelible markings of the past.