I Have Been Mythologizing Myself: A Conversation with Saba Keramati
To create art is to share one’s own mythologies with the larger world.
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I Like Books About Books: A Review of Shannon Reed’s Why We Read
WHY WE READ reminds us not only of where we began as readers but also where we could go if we release our inhibitions and allow ourselves to simply enjoy reading.
Rumpus Original Fiction: orange is thirsty
Vultures don't touch the orange. They touch the white.
The Sad–Beautiful: A Conversation with Amy Stuber
I usually go into a story with a feel for a situation or a character or a place more than an actual storyline.
What to Read When You Need The Help of Mystical Forces to Combat Human Failure
It takes a whole library to make a book...
Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Ava Chen
Nothing appears on the news— / I have been checking for years. /
What’s left composes and composes, / unbearably distinct against the horizon.
My Voice Doesn’t Fall Neatly into a Category: A Conversation with Desiree Akhavan
I think everyone changes. I feel a lot more steadfast in who I am and what I make.
Voices on Addiction: Second Chances
Had he, like me, been the only one left, doing the best he could, showing up for emergencies?
How to Win a Gunfight: Bret Anthony Johnston’s We Burn Daylight
The teens in this book seem to know something the adults don’t: that if they are going to have any kind of future, they must create it themselves.
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Familiar Phantom
“Why are you here?” I asked after a pause. “After all these years.”
Living in a Nowhere Space: A Conversation with Olivia Gatwood
Tech perpetuates ideas we’ve already had about women, but it just blows them out of proportion to kind of impossible degrees.
Beyond the Page: Empowerment Avenue
The Empowerment Avenue collective emerged from a simple need: incarcerated folks have limited support, on top of no internet and email access, to get their writing out of prison and into the hands of editors.
