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.
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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.
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. . . .