What to Read When You’re Writing Speculative Memoir
Laraine Herring shares a reading list to celebrate A CONSTELLATION OF GHOSTS.
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Posts Tagged: Ariel Gore
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Laraine Herring
“That’s the power of art, I think. It is transformative. It can love us all back home.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2020
The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2020!
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Witch House
What was I now? A witness? A victim? A mother? A suspect?
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Notable Portland: 11/7–11/13
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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The Rumpus Is Going to Portland!
The Rumpus celebrates literature at the Portland Book Festival!
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Anger as Fuel: A Conversation with Dani Burlison
Dani Burlison discusses ALL OF ME: STORIES OF LOVE, ANGER, AND THE FEMALE BODY.
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Slow Burn: A Conversation with Katie Jean Shinkle
Katie Jean Shinkle discusses her new novel, RUINATION.
...moreNotable Portland: 1/11–1/17
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
...moreNotable San Francisco: 11/8–11/14
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Reinventing Motherhood and Re-Dreaming Reality: Talking with Ariel Gore
Ariel Gore discusses her new novel We Were Witches, why capitalism and the banking system are the real enemies, and finding the limits between memoir and fiction.
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What to Read When You Need Some Good News
Take a quick break from the apocalyptic news and end your week with this list of books to eagerly anticipate (assuming the world doesn’t end) instead!
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Interview, Randall Tyrone talks with writer Keith Newton about his innovative chapbook, A Week of Kindness, which reflects Newton’s fascination with surrealist Max Ernst’s 1933 “collage novel” Une semaine de bonté. Newton shares thoughtful views on organized religion, art as a response to fraying societal bonds, and his childhood and adolescence as a member of a cult. Next, […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Do You Have a Beau?
Shame is the haunting that’s hardest to scrub away.
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Fathers, and Stories, and Father’s Day Stories from the Sunday Rumpus
This time last year I sat for days with my father in his room at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, recording his voice as he narrated the story of his life. “She’s helping me write my memoirs,” he quipped to the endless parade of nurses passing through to change the dressings on his legs, take […]
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First, in the Saturday Essay, Cindy Lamothe writes about Central American street gangs, folklore, and how “more than a decade’s worth of war [has] left El Salvador in an aggressive tailspin of poverty and violence.” Then, Ryan Werner reviews poet Katie Schmid’s collection, forget me / hit me / let me drink great quantities of clear, […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Blood-Red Bougainvillea
And maybe that’s the part I shouldn’t tell you: As often as I tried to lock it out, I invited male violence into our home.
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Rock Out with Your Book Out #2: Writer Ariel Gore’s Steely Dan Detox
Hip Mama, which started as Ariel Gore’s student project at Mills College in Oakland and debuted as a zine in 1993, elevated Gore to rockstar status
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