From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction: No Good
The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
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Join NOW!The sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
...moreMy hands grow cold and rigid. In those blue-tinged palms, I can see my future.
...moreArtist Sam Brown discusses the highs and lows of big artistic dreams.
...moreMalaka Gharib discusses her graphic memoir, I WAS THEIR AMERICAN DREAM.
...moreImagine a man looking at the artist looking at the art at the party.
...more“I had to save my own life. I had the right to save my own life.”
...moreGeorgia Webber discusses DUMB: LIVING WITHOUT A VOICE in an illustrated interview!
...moreKaty Horan discusses Literary Witches, which she illustrated and worked on in collaboration with writer Taisia Kitaiskaia, out tomorrow from Seal Press.
...moreBeatriz Ramos discusses DADA, the digital platform she hopes will democratize art and reimagine the Internet’s potential for visual artists.
...more[H]ere comes this white boy, Asher Mains. Red-haired too, and bearded, like the pirates that once rummaged Grenada’s coves.
...moreIf we want to talk about desire, a gnawing ache for something we don’t yet have, or for something we’ve lost, we can say that we yearn for the transformation that the satisfaction of our desire will bring.
...moreWhere does the line between the self-portrait and the selfie fall?
...moreHere is something I’ve always believed: Just knowing I am an artist, asserting that identity, is more important than what I produce. It is a victory in itself.
...moreCompare yourself to a raw wound. Explain that everyone else is one too, whether they know it or not.
...moreElliot Smith fits the definition of “tortured artist” pretty cleanly. His childhood in Texas and the divorce of his parents contributed to enduring problems with depression, addiction, and suicidal tendencies. But the cliche fails to encompass his virtuosity and songwriting genius. On the song “In the Lost and Found,” Smith layers his trademark whisper over beautifully […]
...moreI wish it had been: Amy was a brilliant and tortured artist. Lets explore her brilliance. Let’s watch her perform.
...moreLidia Yuknavitch discusses her latest book, The Small Backs of Children, war, art, the chaos of experience, and that photograph of the vulture stalking the dying child in the Sudan that won the Pulitzer Prize.
...more“You don’t have to be at the mercy of the muse. You need your own internalized thinking process that you can perform again and again.” Although Lena abandoned her desire to be an artist in the strict sense, her definition of an artist could be applied to her current role. “As an artist,” she says, […]
...more“The problem with art is, because we love it so much, we put the artists who created it on pedestals and we believe they cannot fail because, in some corner of our mind, we’ve formed a relationship with them and their product, and for us to discover them as imperfect shatters the illusion: we have […]
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