The Last Book I Loved: Re-reading Dana Levin’s Banana Palace in 2019
In such a context, Dana Levin’s particular apocalypses deserve another look.
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Posts Tagged: bodies
On Seeing Myself: Representation and Ryan O’Connell’s Special
“What does disabled look like?”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #188: T Fleischmann
“Time is really weird and fascinating.”
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Transcending Metaphor: Jenifer Sang Eun Park’s Autobiography of Horse
To call [AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HORSE] unique is an understatement.
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Open Letter to Our Body
The only thing I can count on to be there tomorrow is my body. And yours.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Palehound’s Special Skateboard
In a lot of ways, I kind of gave up on my body.
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The Bent Hourglass: Living in Crip Time
This is how to be sick, or hurt: give up on fast time.
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Unclenching the Body: A Conversation with Jennifer Pastiloff
Jennifer Pastiloff discusses her first book, ON BEING HUMAN.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #177: Grace Talusan
“I was moved to write the unspeakable and unsayable.”
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Drawing in Circles
Wondering is exhausting.
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A Strange Liminal Space: George Abraham’s The Specimen’s Apology
Each formal experiment is a temporary hole into a new world that opens, then collapses, behind the reader.
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A Gentle Reckoning: Blas Falconer’s Forgive the Body This Failure
If there is distance in this collection, it originates with our own discomfort with its subject matter.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: A World in a Box
Saturday is a desert in a motel.
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Reimagining Jesus: A Conversation with Savannah Sipple
Savannah Sipple discusses her debut collection, WWJD AND OTHER POEMS.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Coyote on Holy Mesa”
I have come to the desert in search of bones.
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Telling the Truth, Sideways: A Conversation with Tessa Fontaine
Tessa Fontaine discusses her debut memoir, THE ELECTRIC WOMAN.
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What Is Found There: Talking with Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox
Poets Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox discuss their writing.
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Ablutions: A Triptych
I am twenty the first time I turn the water red.
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We’re All Just Making It Up: Talking with Steve Hughes
Steve Hughes discusses his debut story collection, STIFF.
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Living, Breathing Art: A Conversation with Bradley Silver
Tattoo artist Bradley Silver discusses the political intersection of body art and street art, and more.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #160: Kimberly Dark
“We are all in bed with Daddy. Gendered expectations are part of our DNA.”
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Transformations: A Conversation with Genevieve Hudson
Genevieve Hudson discusses her debut story collection, PRETEND WE LIVE HERE.
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Tiamat on the Treadmill
The gym is a place where the body is primary.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #156: Steph Auteri
“I wanted my book to open up a conversation.”
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Our Beautiful Fragility: A Conversation with Lisa Locascio
Lisa Locascio discusses her debut novel, OPEN ME.
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Naked in Japan
Thin bodies, thick bodies, fit bodies, round bodies. I’d never seen so much flesh.
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A Lumpy, Misshapen Book: Talking with Elissa Washuta
Elissa Washuta discusses her chapbook, STARVATION MODE.
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The Thread: All in My Head
I am in a war, and some of the toughest battles happen in my head.
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A Séance of a Book: Talking with Allie Rowbottom
Allie Rowbottom discusses her debut memoir, JELL-O GIRLS.
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