What to Read When You’re Healing
In our cultural climate of reflecting and experiencing so much societal, governmental, and personal harm; it’s no wonder many have returned and revived poetry as a balm for the current moment.
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November Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Our November Letters in the Mail come from Daniel Gumbiner and Jami Nakamura Lin.
What to Read When You Want to Find Home
Even if I’m still in limbo, I’m learning what home means for me and how it shows up in both my body and my mind.
October Spotlight: Letters in the Mail
Our next Letters in the Mail come from Ling Ma and Kelly Sather.
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Dollmaker
Sakshi can lay me over her workbench, unstitch my skin, stuff me with fur, and then sew me. She can weave her magic into me. Make me not be myself anymore.
They’re Both and They’re Neither: A Conversation with Robert Lunday
My stepfather would always tell me, “Don’t think, act. Follow orders.” For me, I want to stop to consider the different angles.
What to Read When Your Spirit Needs a Refresh
A reading list from India Adams, author of FOX WOMAN GET OUT!
To Mother, To Remember, To Survive: A Review of Sun Yung Shin’s The Wet Hex
To be a mother is to have strength, resilience, and ferocity in the face of oppression. It is also to contain the magic and power of creating a new life, of bringing up children, of making a home and a legacy.
What to Read When Escaping a Creep
Author Myriam Gurba on some of the books that fueled and shaped her new collection.
No addition without subtraction: A Conversation with Hilary Leichter
As fiction writers, we’re always saying that what we write is not “real,” but as soon as we write it, it becomes a part of the world.
To Feel Complicit in a Broken System: Geoffrey D. Morrison’s Falling Hour
There is impressive control in the deployment of these mind spirals, with Morrison integrating link after link into a narrative that grows more complex but keeps all its many balls in the air, the kind of juggler who satisfies and surprises with what he is able to toss into the mix.
What to Read When You’re Seeking Wonder in Times of Grief
By practicing grief, much like one might develop a creative or meditation practice, I found wonder everywhere and in everything.