Longing for Home: A Conversation with Gemini Wahhaj
The diaspora is not just a longing for home but is also really complicated and beautiful and painful, this mysterious experience abroad.
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The First Book: Vanessa Chan
Ambition and achievement are great, but gratitude is the true source of joy.
Friendship Sunset: A Conversation with Maria Hummel
Friendship is in some ways the purest expression of love. Friendship doesn’t ask for something back in the same way that other loves do.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Hóngmén Banquet
“This is a homecoming,” he’d announced to the girl who took the order, “don’t let our mouths or cups go empty.”
The First Book: Soraya Palmer
I thought about stories that saved me as a child by showing me what was possible. And then I thought about the stories that were missing.
The First Book: A. Light Zachary
I gave up on "speaking truth to power" when I remembered our oppressors will never read my poetry.
The First Book: Sebastián H. Páramo
I believe that's what most writers want—to share an experience that adds complexity to life and resonates with something someone hasn't been able to say yet.
The First Book: Cory Allen
Believe in your story. Be persistent. Be creative and find ways around the roadblocks.
“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.