Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”
There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
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Posts Tagged: alcoholism
A Holiday in Hell: Lauren Tivey’s Moroccan Holiday
If you’re going to Hell, bring a good guide.
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Voices on Addiction: None of This Is Bullshit
I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.
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Fool Me Once
The first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.
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Survival Soup
You could say that I have trained for this pandemic all my life.
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Voices on Addiction: Fallen
There is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erica C. Barnett
Erica C. Barnett discusses her debut memoir, QUITTER.
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Body Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Voices on Addiction: A Body Full of Ghosts
I’ve known since I was a child that the world is ending. I felt it in my bones.
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The Harder, Truer Thing: Talking with Chelsea Bieker
Chelsea Bieker discusses her debut novel, GODSHOT.
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Father Time Is Undefeated
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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Voices on Addiction: We Love Our Sons, We Raise Our Daughters
Drunk women are targets. Drunk men can be anything.
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Voices on Addiction: The Opposite of Hallelujah
When I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
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Voices on Addiction: Jack and the Boss
My sobriety is still a mystery to me. Forty years this December.
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Voices on Addiction: Jokerman
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
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A Modern-Day Witch: Talking Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs discusses his new memoir, TOIL & TROUBLE.
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Uncomfortable Truths: The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan
Making it to thirty seems unimaginable, yet it happens anyway.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Emily Arnason Casey
Emily Arnason Casey discusses her debut essay collection, MADE HOLY.
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Voices on Addiction: How to Stay
Drinking is the opposite of staying.
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I Am the Ignition
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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Magic Numbers: A Story of Wanting in Pairs
Find and replace. Food for alcohol. Daughter for dad.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #180: De’Shawn Charles Winslow
“Everyone, to varying degrees, is in everyone’s business and life.”
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Amber van de Bunt
Amber van de Bunt discusses her debut memoir, OVERCOME.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #178: Irene O’Garden
“Trust that if you want to write that much it will find a way out of you.”
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Not All of Us Are on Vacation: Talking with Jason Allen
Jason Allen discusses his debut novel, THE EAST END.
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A Cleansing Tornado: Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by Sara Borjas
Undergirding all the truth about pain is the triumph that comes from having a heart like a window and a mouth like a cliff.
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Voices on Addiction: They Call It Spirits
Why was he so broken? And why did his broken make me feel broken, too?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Lunch Money
Out here on the balcony, perched three stories above the ground, we’re in her world.
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Voices on Addiction: All the Ways to Save Your Life
But we can make choices if we want to live. I believe that.
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