The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Alison McGhee
“Stories hurt, stories heal, stories save our lives.”
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Posts Tagged: bodies
A Girl-Body Filled with Animals
There was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
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Hopeful Acts: Talking with Krys Malcolm Belc
Krys Malcolm Belc discusses his debut memoir, THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Meg Pokrass
“The book is about the complicated problem of loving.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Karen Salyer McElmurray
“The grief felt like giving birth, these waves of pain and then receiving.”
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The Space Between Vertebrae
My hands grow cold and rigid. In those blue-tinged palms, I can see my future.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Soft Butch”
For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be strong, to be tough. I didn’t want to be soft.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod
“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”
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A Space of Sanctuary: Mother Country by Elana Bell
The body, like a country, holds so much, and all at once.
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The Lure of the Process: Talking with Chang-rae Lee
Chang-rae Lee discusses his new novel, MY YEAR ABROAD.
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Belonging Is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton
Georgina Lawton discusses her debut memoir, RACELESS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Randa Jarrar
Randa Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
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True Detective and a Greyhound: On Imagination and Survival
It’s exhausting, I realize, to constantly convince myself that I matter.
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Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney
Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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Affliction: On Finding Relief in Pain
Hurting heightened everything, both within and without it.
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If My Body Were a House
Where my masculinity dwells, I am in control.
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Not Looking Away: The State She’s In by Lesley Wheeler
But look at this poet-speaker speaking the unspeakable!
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The Violent and the Sensual: original kink by Jubi Arriola-Headley
Violence can be turned around, turned into pleasure, or an act of freedom, or an act of defiance.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”
There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses her new book, THE FREEZER DOOR.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Overlook
To be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Two Flash Fictions by Kelsey Norris
It was strange what the nudity did to us—what the nakedness undid.
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No Unnecessary Touching: A Conversation with C. Kubasta
C. Kubasta discusses her new collection, ABJECTIFICATION: STORIES & TRUTHS.
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Completely Embodied: Talking with K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang discusses her debut novel, BESTIARY.
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Others Would Tell Me Nothing Is Mine: Talking with Barbara Jane Reyes
Barbara Jane Reyes discusses her new collection, LETTERS TO A YOUNG BROWN GIRL.
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Mothers and Daughters: Girl by Veronica Golos
Bodies become something to escape from or leave behind.
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On Shapeshifting and Surrender: A Conversation with Abi Palmer
Abi Palmer discusses her new book, SANATORIUM.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan
“Memoir is about recreating the complexities of a life.”
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In Protest of a Body that Refuses to End
All I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.
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