What to Read When You Want to Listen
In the last few years, audiobooks have helped me rekindle my identity as a reader.
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Rumpus Articles
Funny Women: Now Open for Submissions
Ultimately, we’ll determine your eligibility based on vibes.
A Palestinian Voice in Gaza: Mosab Abu Toha’s Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear
Here, the will to survive outlasts destruction. Here, Palestinians in Gaza coalesce with the land and its resilient growth and beauty.
Writing about Grief is Making Sense of It: A Conversation with Kyoko Mori
When entering a narrative that has great emotion, it’s important to commit to capturing the emotion and portraying it. But also knowing when to stop.
Syncopation
I need them to change the music to something harmless. Something by a blond pop star.
Genius or Madness: Patrick Langley’s The Variations
Like a piece of music or genetic code, the gift changes over time and according to who is experiencing it. Langley’s novel traces the shifts.
The Other Home I Found is in the Art Itself: A Conversation with Richard Blanco
. . . it’s the poet or artist’s job to open up a new dialogue, to ask questions that aren’t being asked
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Alexa Luborsky
Girl A maintains the story of Girl B about a brother, a father, a tree, and
a kiss. / The story became the thirst for a story, while the river watched.
Sustaining Forces When Splintering: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison
All of life is simultaneity for everyone. We’re all inside of many different tracks of experience at once.
Voices on Addiction: Learning to Steal
My clothes hung, though, I called it draping. I called it fashion.
Punctuating pseudo-realities: Daniel Lefferts’s Ways and Means
This is a world in which the “ways and means” of the novel’s title are no sure thing, in which the relationship of the protagonists to the money they have (or don’t have) easily exceeds tangible causality.