Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Rob Roberge’s Liar
Rob Roberge’s new memoir, Liar, is out February 9 from Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House.
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Posts by: Rob Roberge
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Patrick O’Neil
Patrick O’Neil talks about his debut memoir Gun Needle Spoon, being big in France, the drug/recovery genre, and writing through trauma.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Crazy
“We live in a culture where it can seem like everyone wants to be troubled. Nobody wants to be crazy…The story arc of mental illness does not conform to the redemption tale.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Sean Madigan Hoen
“I wanted to convey the ecstatic experience of performing really destructive music, and to articulate the kind of raw need that drives young people to do so.”
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Literary Fiction’s Dilemma
If literary fiction offers an alternative to more mainstream “narratives of reassurance,” can the oft-cited moral experiment of Heinz’s Dilemma help us understand why such challenging work isn’t more popular?
...moreSunday Rumpus Serialization: Your Life in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (#3)
1986: Liz—who you are in love with, while she thinks of you as friends who fuck—has always wanted a bed of rose petals to fuck on.
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The debut Sunday Rumpus serialization continues with Rob Roberge’s wild ride through memory, identity, sex, trauma, music, addiction, love and loss.
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Looking back, you see than while many things happened before Renee was killed, this is really where all the other things start and, to a certain degree, end . . .
...moreSunday Essay: You Or Someone Like You
Let me start off by saying I love getting to teach writing. It’s the only job I have ever had that I didn’t despise—every other job has been some boss or company taking my time in trade for something as meaningless (but not, sadly, useless) as money.
...moreYou Can’t Take Me Anywhere
The first day of the AWP conference, I ran into my good friend Tod Goldberg. Since Tod is now, also, my boss and since I’d be doing some time unofficially manning the booth where we teach (UCR/Palm Desert’s Low-Residency MFA Program), my behavior has, for the first time in our friendship and, especially, his professional […]
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Point of View and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Flexible First Person
We spend an enormous amount of our lives … thinking about other people, their motives, their desires and their opinions.
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