Posts Tagged: anxiety

From the Archive: Why Writing Matters in the Age of Despair

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No word is wasted. No story is told in vain.

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From the Archive: The Dark All Around Us

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There is still light in the dark. This is the paradox that Little Bear has to accept in order to fall asleep.

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From the Archive: Unbound

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It’s always been ground glass, scraping against my insides. I imagine a light held to the place where I open would illuminate a mess of torn flesh, throbbing red-wet.

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Laughing Through It: Emily Austin’s Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

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Morbid humor exists for a reason: to poke fun at our inevitable ends and lighten its emotional load.

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Before

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The mind, you see, wants better weather. The mind wants to believe what suits it best.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Amy Mackelden and Dr. Dylan Jaggard

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“We wanted to give voice to people who are often spoken for.”

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Electric Synthesis: Drakkar Noir by Michael Chang

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Chang’s style imitates internet culture and the patterns of an anxious mind. But there’s also glamour.

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Writing Toward Feeling: Talking with Jean Kyoung Frazier

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Jean Kyoung Frazier discusses her debut novel, PIZZA GIRL.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod

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“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”

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Sleeping with Myself

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I exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.

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Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam

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But Griner is too skilled a realist to allow The Book of Otto and Liam to become a simple revenge story.

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Finding Firm Ground: A Conversation with Nadia Owusu

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Nadia Owusu discusses her debut memoir, AFTERSHOCKS.

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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”

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There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.

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Making It Through: A Conversation with Kelly J. Baker

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Kelly J. Baker discusses her new essay collection, FINAL GIRL.

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Embracing the Grotesque: Talking with Lisa Hanawalt

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Lisa Hanawalt discusses her new book, I WANT YOU.

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If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home Now

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I’ve been everywhere, but I don’t belong anywhere.

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Writing What Bothers: A Conversation with Frances Cha

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Frances Cha discusses her debut novel, IF I HAD YOUR FACE.

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I Had to Go There: Talking with Enzo Silon Surin

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Enzo Silon Surin discusses his debut poetry collection, WHEN MY BODY WAS A CLINCHED FIST.

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The Virus

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In the eyes of some, we’re worse than disease vectors: we are the disease.

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