Father Time Is Undefeated
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
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Posts Tagged: cancer
Rice Cake Love
I’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
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Voices on Addiction: Jokerman
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
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Translating Desire: The Erotic-Macabre Poetry of Joyce Mansour
…women’s writing has often been deemed too dark, too sultry, too frigid, too hysterical.
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Otherwordly: Talking with Rosebud Ben-Oni
Rosebud Ben-Oni discusses her new collection, TURN AROUND, BRXGHT XYXS.
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Turning Purple: Blood Feast
It isn’t until I look at my wife’s face that I can feel my own fear.
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So Funny It Kills: Getting Serious with Leland Cheuk
Leland Cheuk discusses his new novel, NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN.
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Doesn’t It Keep You Up at Night?
The dark holds me as long as I will let it.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #192: Lara Vapnyar
“This novel is my most intimate and biographical.”
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No One Can Be Saved: A Conversation with Amanda Goldblatt
Amanda Goldblatt discusses her debut novel, HARD MOUTH.
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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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My Summers of Work, Revolution, and Love
Mah taught me that love wasn’t only rebellious, it was also tenacious.
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The Supplicant Undertaker
Is it too much to ask: a girl to want her father to keep his feet firmly in the soil of the living?
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Navigating by the Right Stars: A Conversation with Briallen Hopper
Briallen Hopper discusses her debut collection, HARD TO LOVE: ESSAYS AND CONFESSIONS.
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The Pains of the Past: A Conversation with Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde
Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde discusses her second novel, WHAT WE OWE.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Eva Hagberg Fisher
Eva Hagberg Fisher discusses her debut memoir, HOW TO BE LOVED.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Man from Washington
They had, together, built something that, while not without its faults, was strong.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #91: In Four Equal Parts
Part of what makes Belly important and lasting, that is, is that they really think and feel a lot.
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The Algorithm of Love
The life I had doesn’t flash like I see in movies. The life I want is what stares ahead.
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Writing When Your Life Depends on It
Do I want to live, or do I want to write? Sometimes I think it’s that simple.
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CAN-CER-VIVE
I’ve only had breast cancer once and already I know too much.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Basement
Looking back, it feels like I knew.
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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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Hard to Swallow: Allie Rowbottom’s Jell-O Girls
Jell-O, that seemingly innocuous, gem-colored dessert, has a darker history than one might expect.
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A Legacy of Wisdom: The Final Voicemails by Max Ritvo
Is death a miracle or destruction?
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A Tiny Wellspring of Comfort: Nina Riggs’s The Bright Hour
[Nina] is not a warrior but a reconnoiter at life’s edge.
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Monsters Are Fun: Talking with Clinton Crockett Peters
Clinton Crockett Peters discusses his new book, PANDORA’S GARDEN.
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Hannibal Lecter, My Therapist
In the dark, I felt at home in the underground bunker where the hospital stored its violent men.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Lacking World
I acted childishly. But, in my defense, it was childish only if we actually lived in a world where Shakespeare had never existed.
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Entertaining and Useful: A Conversation with Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb discusses her graphic memoir, Love That Bunch, drawing cancer, inadequacies of early work, and her burial wishes.
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