What to Read When You Want to Be a Bad Girl
Ariel Delgado Dixon, author of DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU, shares a reading list for when you want to be a Bad Girl.
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Using Form to Transform: Come Clean by Joshua Nguyen
If I had a dollar for every word I have written about BIPOC representation in entertainment media, I still wouldn’t have enough to pay back my student loans and car loans.
Cigarettes and Wittgenstein: The Rumpus Interview with Sean Thor Conroe
The [novel's] main question would be, How does a man stuck in resentment and anger at others and the world, who lacks a sense of belonging and sense of his usefulness in the world, find his way out of that?
The Everyday Practice of Art:The Loft Generation by Edith Schloss
Her writing is quiet, perhaps even naive. But Schloss is enamored by the minutiae of her subjects, and the exactness and delicacy of her details ripple out like water. Trying to focus on one aspect of the book would be to let the entire thing go.
Joy in Persistence: Siri Hustvedt on Writing and the Need for Adaptive Grandiosity
Everyone, even the most tell-all writer, withholds something in the interests of protecting herself or others, but my interest in my own stories has always been to use them to illustrate larger stories about the culture . . .
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Eva Jurczyk
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Eva Jurczyk about her debut novel, Department of Rare Books & Special Collections (Poisoned Pen Press, January 2022), and its structure, art capers, and more.…
Your Job is to Tell the Truth: A Conversation with Edgar Gomez about High-Risk Homosexual
...if I’m going to acknowledge my fear, finding something about it that’s funny helps it go down easier. That’s how I survive.
In Praise of Young Little Luxuries: Rax King’s Tacky
Her enthusiasm . . . leaves you a little raw, thinking about the things in your own adolescence you could have enjoyed more if you hadn’t learned so early the most ironic ways to protect your heart . . .
A Devotee of the Interconnectedness of Time: A Conversation with Ariel Delgado Dixon
"When I teach, my biggest hobby horse is specificity . . . Even boring people are specifically boring."
What to Read When Celebrating Black History
Rumpus editors share a list of books to celebrate Black History Month!
Hope is the Best Strategy: A Conversation with Sharman Apt Russell
As we start seeing the effects of climate change, of people struggling with drought and struggling with erratic weather patterns and flooding, we have to accept our responsibility.
A Gentle Touch: Annie Hartnett’s Unlikely Animals
What’s special about Hartnett’s chorus of the dead, though, is that they stress the tension between overlapping realities.