Posts Tagged: cancer
Wingtips and Shell-Toes
There was a right way and a wrong way to do things, and those shoes were wrong.
...moreThe Hope of Time: Talking with Judith H. Montgomery
Judith H. Montgomery discusses her latest poetry collection, MERCY.
...moreFool Me Once
The first time I had my breasts removed was hard. The second time, less so.
...moreDeep Wells: A Conversation with Rebecca McClanahan
Rebecca McClanahan discusses her new memoir-in-essays, IN THE KEY OF NEW YORK CITY.
...moreThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan
“Memoir is about recreating the complexities of a life.”
...moreBody Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
...moreRumpus Exclusive: “The Beautiful Dead”
It was personal, as the detectives on my favorite shows always said.
...moreVariants of Unknown Significance
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
...moreBald-headed Muthaf*cker
Healing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
...moreThat Little Bit of Magic: A Conversation with Ramiza Shamoun Koya
Ramiza Shamoun Koya discusses her debut novel, THE ROYAL ABDULS.
...moreIt’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life
My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
...moreFather Time Is Undefeated
It’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
...moreRice Cake Love
I’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
...moreVoices on Addiction: Jokerman
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
...moreTranslating Desire: The Erotic-Macabre Poetry of Joyce Mansour
…women’s writing has often been deemed too dark, too sultry, too frigid, too hysterical.
...moreOtherwordly: Talking with Rosebud Ben-Oni
Rosebud Ben-Oni discusses her new collection, TURN AROUND, BRXGHT XYXS.
...moreTurning Purple: Blood Feast
It isn’t until I look at my wife’s face that I can feel my own fear.
...moreSo Funny It Kills: Getting Serious with Leland Cheuk
Leland Cheuk discusses his new novel, NO GOOD VERY BAD ASIAN.
...moreDoesn’t It Keep You Up at Night?
The dark holds me as long as I will let it.
...moreThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #192: Lara Vapnyar
“This novel is my most intimate and biographical.”
...moreNo One Can Be Saved: A Conversation with Amanda Goldblatt
Amanda Goldblatt discusses her debut novel, HARD MOUTH.
...moreOpen Letter to Our Body
The only thing I can count on to be there tomorrow is my body. And yours.
...moreMy Summers of Work, Revolution, and Love
Mah taught me that love wasn’t only rebellious, it was also tenacious.
...moreThe 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?
...moreNavigating by the Right Stars: A Conversation with Briallen Hopper
Briallen Hopper discusses her debut collection, HARD TO LOVE: ESSAYS AND CONFESSIONS.
...moreThe Pains of the Past: A Conversation with Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde
Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde discusses her second novel, WHAT WE OWE.
...moreVoices on Addiction: A Conversation with Eva Hagberg Fisher
Eva Hagberg Fisher discusses her debut memoir, HOW TO BE LOVED.
...moreRumpus Original Fiction: The Man from Washington
They had, together, built something that, while not without its faults, was strong.
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