Voices on Addiction: I’m Not Eating
I want to tell her that starving softens the edges of everything. When I’m not eating, only the moment at the end makes me feel present.
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Debtors to a Mercy We Never Begged For
No, home is not as simple as the heart-shaped sandwiches Ma placed into my lunch bag on Valentine’s Day or the way my father confessed to listening to me sing shower showtunes or washing a car beside my brother as the summer sun beat down.
The Rumpus 2023 Gift Guide
Okay, a quick confession—I’m terrible at gifting. I occasionally land on the mark, but most of the time my ideas are either wild guesses or something thrown together in a panic, and I often fall back on the classics . . .
“Good Buy” to All That: Pip Adam’s The New Animals
It’s imaginative fiction in a way that is jolting to the auto-fiction that is so prevalent today, and it allows Adam to make commentary on the disasters of human ambition.
Letter to My Mentee (October 26, 2023)
“This,” I say to my daughter, choking up, “is civilization. Not banking, not technology. Not weaponry that kills without a fight. This,” I go on, seeing her face pale, “is what it means to be civilized.”
No Quiet Endings: A Conversation with Elisa Gonzalez
I do think that a stranger’s vantage point can be valuable and create interesting reflections or ideas, but it feels important to doing that in a way that was ethical.
The Mothership
Most of all, I hoped they’d see how well I turned out and regret ever sending me away.
The Body Made Glorious in Awakening: A Conversation with Diane Gottlieb
These are writers who didn’t want to hide anymore. Instead, they knew how important it was to share their stories.
Organic Sins: Clemens Meyer’s While We Were Dreaming
Have we made contact with the Leipzig of the late '80s and early '90s? Have we made contact with THAT German?
Facing Redaction by Way of Art: A Conversation with Arthur Kayzakian
We’ve all had that feeling where we’ve felt unseen. I think that’s a big part of this book. Maybe what was taken away from us was attention.
What to Read When You Want to Understand Precarity
American Precariat shares stories of the unseen and the unspoken and articulates the lines of our division.