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Perfumed by Fear: Silvia Guerra’s A Sea at Dawn
Guerra attempts to maneuver around obstacles with riverine language, and tensions organize around this effort.
This is How We Make Monsters: A Conversation with Hannah V Warren
Nature is scary-beautiful, especially in the backcountry. I always carry a simmering fear of what I’ll find or what will find me alone on the trail: bears, storms, men.
Corey Sobel, Strictly Speaking, Doesn’t Exist
While I lost my faith long ago, I have clearly retained this belief in, need for, existential variousness.
A Cult of Translation: Jennifer Croft’s The Extinction of Irena Rey
Readers preferring more straightforward narratives won’t find one here.
Rumpus Original Fiction: embody
we are always children in some way, always easily hurt by our mothers. our bodies are expanding;
“Obsession is the Secret Ingredient to Being a Creative Person”: A Conversation with Marie Mutsuki Mockett
That's a concern that one might have in the middle of one’s life: “How much time do I have left? What did I not do? What do I still need to do?”
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Melissa Crowe
we make out the shape of what’s coming, / hold very still until the footsteps turn,
The First Book: Armen Davoudian
I was attracted to those aspects of poetry where you can be in two places at once but also lost between them: rhyme, the pun, and “binary” forms like the sonnet.
“All of Humanity Probably Won’t Enjoy My Book:” A Conversation with Debbie Urbanski
If you are reading the story of the last human on Earth, then you should expect to have to do some work.