Of Tides, Stars, and other Motherly Forces: A Conversation with Stephanie Niu
...in the same way that words and sounds can rhyme, ideas and facts can also rhyme.
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Voices on Addiction: Gotta Light?
Was he going to show up and tell our parents? What would we say? Would we lie? Would Sarah cry again?
Rich Kids Want to Die Too: Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized
...[BERLIN ATOMIZED is] about the internal and external chaos of growing up during globalization in an exploding, rootless world—one in which young people can’t tell who they are.
Love, Grief, and the Search for Postpartum Healing: A Conversation with Shayne Terry
For me, the process of essay play involves a lot of making things visible that were invisible, which often means circling back to show what else was there.
A Bloody Brilliant Sentence: Erotic Linguistics in Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber”
...I had not yet read horror written by another woman with such a rich, arresting evocation of female sexuality.
Parallel Practice: How to Break a Sentence
Which color might capture the word “would,” for example? And which stitch?
Voice as the Sunlight of the Story: A Conversation with Robert Shapard
Voice is the sunlight of the story for me, the starting point.
Losers Keepers
It’s hard to go on reading when you don’t remember what happened twenty pages ago, so I haven’t read many novels recently.
“stones will know”: On Trauma Plot: A Life by Jamie Hood
Hood wonders how to write rape and its aftermath when its very nature is fragmentation, a form that disqualifies it as a story.
A Poetics of Witness: Jeddie Sophronius’s Interrogation Records
Sophronius writes from an awareness of Chinese Indonesian marginality, yet the pulse of the collection’s counternarrative coheres around an Indonesian national identity.
Rumpus Original Fiction: I Couldn’t Say It Was Tuesday
“You need to watch the news. Aren’t you interested in the world? Very important to know what’s going on in the world.”