The First Book: Cory Allen
Believe in your story. Be persistent. Be creative and find ways around the roadblocks.
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“The psyche is a rich, vast junkyard:” A Conversation with Chin-Sun Lee
As a writer, anything pertaining to the psyche is a rich, vast junkyard I can poke around in to create narratives that align with my own obsessions.
The First Book: Boo Trundle
If the writing process is healing, and if this healing process shapes the narrative, then maybe the reading experience can stimulate aspects of the same healing process.
The Rumpus’s Most Anticipated Books of (early) 2024
Our editors share some of our most anticipated books coming out during the first few months of the new year.
“Intimacy in the Telling”: A Conversation with Maggie Smith
I’m never in a hurry for a piece of writing to wrap up. And I almost never know how it will end.
from Sex with a Brain Injury
It comes from the sky: a meteor, a falling object, a box. It comes out of nowhere, a car, a baseball, an opponent’s fist, a partner’s fist, an officer’s baton. . . .
Coming-of-age into Fame: Ben Fama’s If I Close My Eyes
Masterful prose...a novel that takes an unflinching view of what some might do for fame and ratings.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Pulmonary
If I stand in the middle of my home and wingspan my arms out, I can touch the insides of my mother’s left lung, wall-to-wall.
There’s Reality in Other Places: A Conversation with Kelsey Norris
Life’s weird. There’s reality in other places. I really like fiction and media that play with that strangeness.
January Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Letters in the Mail from Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones and Julia Fine!
Funny Women: Creative Writing Tips for Men
Delete all instances of the word “shrill.” Search for similar words spanning all parts of speech: shriek, nag, scream, screech, and squawk, for example.
Voices on Addiction: Make Me A Channel of Your Peace
In the library at the Farm, I wondered how William’s Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions ended up at a vacation house purchased five years after his death.