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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.
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The First Book: A. Light Zachary
I gave up on “speaking truth to power” when I remembered our oppressors will never read my poetry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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. . . .
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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.
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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.
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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.