We Do What We Can: A Conversation with Ryka Aoki
Ryka Aoki discusses her second novel, LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS.
...moreBecome a Rumpus Member
Join NOW!Ryka Aoki discusses her second novel, LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS.
...moreMattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE.
...moreSteven Reigns discusses his newest poetry collection, A QUILT FOR DAVID.
...moreActive Reception writes into the place where language fails.
...moreJacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
...moreIn that moment of quiet, I screamed, as loud as I could, “I’m bisexual.”
...moreMatthew Clark Davison discusses his debut novel, DOUBTING THOMAS.
...moreGrief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
...moreJameson Fitzpatrick discusses their debut full-length poetry collection, PRICKS IN THE TAPESTRY.
...moreCarter Sickels discusses his new novel, THE PRETTIEST STAR.
...moreMiah Jeffra discusses their new book, THE FABULOUS EKPHRASTIC FANTASTIC!.
...moreFenton Johnson discusses his new book, AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY.
...moreMy body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
...moreLuis Othoniel Rosa discusses his novel, DOWN WITH GARGAMEL!.
...moreAlia Volz discusses her debut memoir, HOME BAKED.
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...more“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...moreThis is what I think of when I think of home; Africa is my altar.
...moreBut then, full of longing to be someone other than I was, his work seemed perfect.
...more“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
...moreI am not coked out of my mind, I’m coked into my mind.
...moreAuthor and activist Sarah Schulman discusses her forthcoming novel, MAGGIE TERRY.
...more[T]he effect of reading Chee’s essays is to be reminded of why we write, but also, why we read, even in these times of never-ending distress.
...moreRebecca Makkai discusses her forthcoming third novel, The Great Believers, how she arrived at the book’s structure, and the story and its characters.
...moreRumaan Alam discusses his new novel, That Kind of Mother, the limits of the employer-employee relationship, and the grossness of heterosexual sex.
...morePoet Stephen Mills discusses his first two collections, He Do the Gay Man in Different Voices and A History of the Unmarried, teaching writing, and what’s next.
...moreChip Livingston discusses his new novel, Owls Don’t Have to Mean Death, his move to Uruguay, his writing life, and the significance of owls.
...moreWhat is so extraordinary about this collection is its lyricism, its humanity, and its urgency.
...more