Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Brain Soup and Making Things: A Conversation with Rita Bullwinkel Maria AndersonJune 22, 2018 Rita Bullwinkel discusses her debut story collection, Belly Up, the foolishness of writing, and what went into the making of her first book.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Sex The Torment of Queer Literature Kelly CaldwellJune 21, 2018 Queer literature isn’t a box to unlock so that it can unlock me.Read
Read Book Club Blog Features & Reviews Rumpus Original The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Meghan Flaherty The Rumpus Book ClubJune 20, 2018 Meghan Flaherty discusses her debut memoir, Tango Lessons, how the book found its current format, and writing a memoir at a young age.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original Moments within Days within Seasons: Talking with Alicia Mountain Justin WymerJune 20, 2018 Alicia Mountain discusses her debut collection, High Ground Coward, the surveillance state, and queer representation in the poetry world. Read
Read ENOUGH Politics Rumpus Original Sex ENOUGH: They Knew How to Take What They Wanted The RumpusJune 19, 2018 A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Voices on Addiction Voices on Addiction: A Review of The Recovering Kerry NevilleJune 19, 2018 As recovering addicts, we must love ourselves back to the source, love our shameful bits and decimations and not just our reconciliations and resurrections.Read
Read Politics Rumpus Original Sex All the Reasons I Texted My Rapist Jessica BlankenshipJune 18, 2018 Admitting I had been raped meant confronting the landscape of my sexual history.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Rumpus Original The Life of the Mind: A Conversation with Elizabeth Scanlon Emma Winsor WoodJune 18, 2018 Elizabeth Scanlon discusses her debut full-length collection, Lonesome Gnosis, brains and trains, and poetry as prayer.Read
Read Rumpus Original Celebrating Eid in Trump’s America Maliha BalalaJune 15, 2018 It seems when our dialogue loses nuance, society in turn loses its mind.Read
Read Features & Reviews Rumpus Original Something Truer Than True: Talking with Kelly O’Connor McNees Jessica JerniganJune 15, 2018 Kelly O’Connor McNees discusses her new novel, Undiscovered Country, the timeliness of its story, and the genre of historical fiction.Read
Read Rumpus Original How I Learned to Hope Again Abraham A. JovenJune 14, 2018 And in order to hope, I have to once more believe—in the midst of unrelenting dark—that light exists even if I cannot see it.Read
Read Allyson McCabe Music Rumpus Original Wanted/Needed/Loved: Viv Albertine’s Emotional Investigation Allyson McCabe and Esme BlegvadJune 14, 2018 I’ve worked through the pain, and made something useful and creative out of it.Read