Posts by: Corrie Greathouse
Roxane Gay and Leslie Jamison Get Personal About Essays
Rumpus essays editor and author of the forthcoming essay collection Bad Feminist Roxane Gay sat down to talk with The Empathy Exams author Leslie Jamison and Michele Filgate; the three women had an insightful conversation about essays, sexuality, and nuance over on Salon. “I don’t think the essay is any more popular than it has been before, but I […]
...moreRumpus Contributor Kima Jones on NPR’s Code Switch
When NPR’s Code Switch went searching for “young poets who were livening up the literary landscape” in honor of National Poetry Month, they found themselves in the world of Rumpus contributor Kima Jones. Code Switch and Ms. Jones set out to crowdsource a poem, which they most certainly did. Kima followed up the collaboration with […]
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Begin Here: Post-Factum
When French novelist and filmmaker Marguerite Duras died on March 3, 1996, she was probably as prepared as any of us can be. Between November, 1994 and August, 1995 she had written a short, 54 page impossible to find book aptly titled That’s All.
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