Laughing through Life: A Conversation with Samantha Irby
Samantha Irby discusses her new essay collection, WOW, NO THANK YOU.
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Posts Tagged: anxiety
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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Finding the World Within
Secrets are expectations passed down over silent years.
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How I Love Her: On Depression and Suicidal Ideation
Maybe the worst part about living with this is that it doesn’t leave me.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Caligulan” by Ernest Hilbert
Now we are untethered, which is disquieting.
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Lilies of the Valley
I want to speak, but I don’t know what to say to you, so here’s a bloom.
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Our Madness: Talking with Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Sarah Fawn Montgomery discusses her debut memoir, QUITE MAD.
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Smoke Screen
I am an oracle who, while dispensing answers to all those who seek them, cannot predict my own future.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #150: Catherine Lacey
“Honestly, I couldn’t write a non-transgressive woman if I tried.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Compulsion”
It’s like a record skipping inside.
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How to Keep Calm and Carry On
Your mind doesn’t play tricks on you. You play tricks on your mind.
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Inborn Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact
Maybe you were whistling before you could talk, too.
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Why Writing Matters in the Age of Despair
No word is wasted. No story is told in vain.
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Picking the Green Path: A Conversation with Ansley Simpson
“The green path takes far more work to even recognize—it takes bushwhacking.”
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