Best Friends
“Speaking English so well” seemed to be the key to open many doors.
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Posts Tagged: adolescence
A Transcendent Wilderness: Andrew J. Graff’s Raft of Stars
In particular, Graff’s river is numinous. It’s the center of everything.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Danny”
Allow her to bewitch you as she bewitches all who cross her path.
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The Isolation of Millennial Life: Ancco’s Nineteen
Nineteen is a book that’s by turns smart, sad, and scathing.
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Writing to Heal: Talking with Emilly Prado
Emilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
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ENOUGH: Encumber (A Brief History)
A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Scrutinizing the Ties That Bind: Melissa Febos’s Girlhood
By the end of the collection, Febos has managed to rewrite or erase entirely many parts of the patriarchal script that held her bound.
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Child as Mother to the Woman: Catherine Gammon’s China Blue
In this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight
He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
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A Girl-Body Filled with Animals
There was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Kristy’s Invisible Hand and Das Baby-Sitters Club Kapital”
The babysitters inspired me, and Kristy’s entrepreneurial vision seemed plain yet elegant; easy-to-follow, too.
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Investigative but Intimate: A Conversation with Robert L. Shuster
Robert L. Shuster discusses his debut novel, TO ZENZI.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod
“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”
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Hell Is a Young Man: Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent
The brutality of frat culture, Nugent suggests, is a veneer that hardly masks its devotees’ miseries and insecurities.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Boy of My Dreams
I cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.
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Finding Healing in Gospel Music
I wasn’t pressured to be stoic. I was permitted to release. I was permitted to be.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: David Biespiel
“In the act of writing about it and revising it, I’m still having the experience.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Forsyth Harmon
“Yes: in terms of an authorial presence, I tried to tread lightly.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sheila Squillante
“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
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Voices on Addiction: Heroin/e
She introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
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Holding Uncertainty: Talking with Teresa Carmody
Teresa Carmody discusses her debut novel, THE RECONCEPTION OF MARIE.
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Wingtips and Shell-Toes
There was a right way and a wrong way to do things, and those shoes were wrong.
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Through a Prism: A Conversation with Sarah Kasbeer
Sarah Kasbeer discusses her debut essay collection, A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sacred Stories”
All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Reina with White Roses
A block away from my house, Reina killed herself.
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I Had to Go There: Talking with Enzo Silon Surin
Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Kirabo Visits the Witch”
The moment presented itself at dusk the following day.
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Queering the Southern Gothic: A Conversation with Genevieve Hudson
Genevieve Hudson discusses her debut novel, BOYS OF ALABAMA.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Warning Bell”
“You are so sexy,” he said. I met his gaze. And the warning bell rang.
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Fields of Light
Light reflects differently off near and faraway objects. It’s all about the light.
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