Grace Talusan, Author at The Rumpus

A rush of joy from complete strangers: An interview with Monica Macansantos

I think that it’s helpful to imagine your own people as your primary audience even when you are also writing for an audience that doesn’t necessarily belong to this community.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky

“I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”

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Under the Small Lights

This prize-winning novella takes a mature, nuanced look at a group of friends trying to navigate the transition from adolescence into adulthood.

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The Loneliest Thing on Earth

Miguel Syjuco’s novel, Ilustrado won the Man Asian Literary Prize while still in manuscript. A Filipino American reviewer considers the fate of Filipino writing in the American literary world.

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Happy Now?

A debut novel about a young husband’s suicide explores the pain, confusion, absurdity, and even humor of grief.

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The Rumpus Interview With Uwem Akpan

“After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another…

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A Disobedient Girl

A first novel about a Sri Lankan servant girl brings to life a vivid world of class differences, and restores dignity to characters who are often shoved to the sidelines.

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Life Is Beautiful

Vicki Forman’s Bakeless Prize-winning memoir recounts the premature births, and deaths, of her children.

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Live Through This

What American teenager hasn’t wanted to run away from an unhappy home?

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Once the Shore: The Rumpus Review

When I first encountered Paul Yoon’s story, “Once the Shore,” the opening piece in Best American Short Stories 2006, I felt the rush of a new discovery. In the first…

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The Rumpus Interview with Uwem Akpan

“After the phone call, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But on getting there, I couldn’t sit or kneel or pray, out of excitement.”

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The Life Of The Body: Masha Gessen’s Blood Matters

Grace Talusan reviews Masha Gessen’s fascinating but hard look at the decision to get a preventive mastectomy, in the context of Talusan’s own decision to get a preventive mastectomy.

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