Finding Firm Ground: A Conversation with Nadia Owusu
Nadia Owusu discusses her debut memoir, AFTERSHOCKS.
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Posts Tagged: anxiety
Some of the Places I Am Stuck
I lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”
There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
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Making It Through: A Conversation with Kelly J. Baker
Kelly J. Baker discusses her new essay collection, FINAL GIRL.
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Winter Baby
Something new in the dead darkness. Short days and shimmers of light.
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Embracing the Grotesque: Talking with Lisa Hanawalt
Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new book, I WANT YOU.
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If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now
I’ve been everywhere, but I don’t belong anywhere.
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Writing What Bothers: A Conversation with Frances Cha
Frances Cha discusses her debut novel, IF I HAD YOUR FACE.
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Bring the Inward Outward: Talking with Greg Mania
Greg Mania discusses his debut memoir, BORN TO BE PUBLIC.
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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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Permadeath
All your efforts and still you must reckon with this end.
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That Little Bit of Magic: A Conversation with Ramiza Shamoun Koya
Ramiza Shamoun Koya discusses her debut novel, THE ROYAL ABDULS.
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Laughing through Life: A Conversation with Samantha Irby
Samantha Irby discusses her new essay collection, WOW, NO THANK YOU.
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Soft Parts
What appealed to me most about furry culture was how it created a space for softness to be worn on the outside.
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Small Breeds
How do people function without the false promises of pressure?
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Too Close to Home
I can’t relax. Bullets are on my mind.
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All These Ostriches: A Conversation with R. Eric Thomas
R. Eric Thomas discusses his debut memoir-in-essays, HERE FOR IT.
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Traveler in Residence
Then a light turns on and a panic sets in, like noise: unassailable, unnameable.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Mother We Share
This is what happens when I listen. I react.
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Sentence by Sentence: Talking with Nicholas Mancusi
Nick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.
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The Climate of Feeling: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk
Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
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The Planet Will Survive Us: A Conversation with Liz Breazeale
Liz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.
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Imagine a River of Milk
What does a newborn’s swallow sound like?
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #201: Brian Alan Ellis
“Loneliness is a way of life, man… like punk!”
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Parallel Planes: The Ghosts of Mothers and Daughters
I need to hear myself say it out loud to make it real.
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The Crack-Up
If I slept… All night, I stayed awake.
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Everyone You Love Is Broke: The Not Wives by Carley Moore
How do you go on when the losses seem unbearable?
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Voices on Addiction: How to Stay
Drinking is the opposite of staying.
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Mortality Probability
The first thing I realized while reading these tables: To be born is risky business.
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