Halloween Costumes That Say: “I Understand And Am Definitely Not Threatened by Gen Z”
Absolutely, definitely not threatened at all.
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Posts Tagged: aging
From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: Forty-Six
Waiting to turn forty-six is like standing in the unrelenting sunshine.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Things for Which We Have Prayed
In the nursing home, his few lucid days are passed recounting the things he had prayed for as a child. The zookeepers, he cackles. I prayed for the zookeepers.
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Joe at the Aquarium
I pushed him so he glided through the fish, the eels, the boxed-in worlds of blues.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: My Mother Fires Guns
You are never really at peace with what you haven’t gotten.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Wasn’t
She gave him a small, relieved laugh. In another world, she replied.
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The Resumes of Identity We Present to Strangers: A Conversation with Dolly Alderton
Dolly Alderton discusses her new novel, GHOSTS.
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The Idiosyncrasies of Aging: Talking with Ali Solomon
Ali Solomon discusses her new book, I AM WHY DO I NEED VENMO? YEARS OLD.
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Finding Meaning in Where the Why Leads: Talking with Kyle Beachy
Kyle Beachy discusses his new memoir, THE MOST FUN THING.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Thomas Farber
“As a writer, to describe even perils can be a form of hope.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Human”
Man was living on the moon but Medicare was still a disaster.
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How We Create Ourselves: Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The voice reaches and reaches at answers to broad questions. Sometimes it pulls back pieces of insight and beauty.
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My Grandfather’s Laugh Is like Thread
Is he there? Does he hear? Does he understand?
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We Are Not Gods: Talking with Elizabeth Ellen
Elizabeth Ellen discusses her new story collection, HER LESSER WORK.
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The Legality of Love
I remember when I learned there is a syntax to love.
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Claiming Our Untold Stories: Talking with Gina Frangello
Gina Frangello discusses her debut memoir, BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN.
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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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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erin Belieu
Erin Belieu discusses her new collection, COME-HITHER HONEYCOMB.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos
It’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
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Not Looking Away: The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler
But look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
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The Hope of Time: Talking with Judith H. Montgomery
Judith H. Montgomery discusses her latest poetry collection, MERCY.
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FUNNY WOMEN: Sleep Tips by a 90-Year-Old Insomniac
You can take care of it in the morning. Just write yourself a note.
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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project: Rosanna Warren
“Any good poem has form and acts out its meanings in form.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #231: Ruth O. Saxton
“While the past remains always present, old women exist in the present.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Neither Wicked Witch nor Fairy Godmother”
[W]hat was going wrong? Why were our stories not being written or published?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Wild Animals
I searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
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C-Beams Glittering in the Dark: A Conversation with Cooper Lee Bombardier
Cooper Lee Bombardier discusses his first book, PASS WITH CARE: MEMOIRS.
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Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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