Funny Women: Query Letter for My Totally Publishable Novel
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The Blood of My Mother
For as long as I remember, I have had stories in my head and instead of writing them down, I had imaginary conversations with people.
From the Archive: Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by Noor Hindi
I stopped trying / to feed anything but myself.
Yokai and Kishōtenketsu: A Conversation with Jami Nakamura Lin
I feel like when you write a book like this, people just expect you to know so many things. What I wanted to get into the book was this idea of searching.
ENOUGH: Abstinence of Education
Some people don’t like the word, “trigger.” I don’t like it. If you give me a better extremity-isolating-suitcase-flying-fury of a word, I will use it.
You’re Not My Birth Mother, But Thanks
But then someone appeared: a woman. Forty-ish. Brown hair. Casual sweater and jeans. An apologetic grimace.
In the Details: Don DeLillo’s Library of America volumes
In 1979, at the age of forty-two, the distinctly American writer Don DeLillo made a change that would have a profound impact on his work: he left the United States.…
Radical Empathy and the Power of Fiction: A Conversation with Shastri Akella
One of the two great powers of writing fiction is the capacity to invent, to activate the imagination and access realities unlike our own
About The Rumpus’s Adoptee-Themed Month
Reclaiming National Adoption Awareness Month as National Adoptee Awareness Month by publishing essays about the adoptee experience, written by adoptees.
Gender Interrogations in Contemporary Queer Poetics: Six New Poetry Collections
How is poetic form being adapted, altered, and reimagined in contemporary lesbian and queer poetry? Five new poetry collections by lesbian, queer, and trans poets attend keenly to gender and systems surrounding it.