From the Archives: Rumpus Original Fiction: Emergency Lifeboats: 24 (12 on Each Side)
“What’s a six-letter word for ignoring truth,” she might say, without looking up from the puzzle.
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Join NOW!“What’s a six-letter word for ignoring truth,” she might say, without looking up from the puzzle.
...moreJacques Rancourt discusses his new collection, BROCKEN SPECTRE.
...more“I always knew I wanted to write a queer saint holy book.”
...moreTeresa Carmody discusses her debut novel, THE RECONCEPTION OF MARIE.
...moreWe are liturgical animals, Toussaint’s poems suggest, designed to satisfy some ultimate desire with worship.
...moreCameron Esposito discusses her new memoir, SAVE YOURSELF.
...moreMolly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison discuss their work.
...moreJulian K. Jarboe discusses EVERYONE ON THE MOON IS ESSENTIAL PERSONNEL.
...moreIf the art of drag has taught me one thing, it’s that I am not unique.
...moreAre my choices in this culture so firmly dictated by my ability to give birth?
...moreNick Mancusi discusses his debut novel, A PHILOSOPHY OF RUIN.
...more“Trust that if you want to write that much it will find a way out of you.”
...moreI praise everyone I can still touch, their warmth a violent protest against the cold weapons of death.
...more“Remember Sinead?” I asked. My mom nodded her head and shrugged.
...moreMy voice begins to crack so I clear my throat. I look at each one of the girls one by one. The heat in me rises. My skin feels like the Texas pavement in July.
...moreThe characters in this collection frequently daydream about time. Children and teens want to speed it up so life can start. Grown-ups ask time to slow, or rewind to get some of it back.
...moreIt’s not coincidental, I think, that most of the secular and sacred saints we venerate now went charging against the grain of the Municipal We.
...moreLisa Factora-Borchers talks about being a Catholic feminist, writing across genres, and pushing back against a singular narrative about New York.
...moreJennifer Martelli discusses her debut collection of poetry, The Uncanny Valley, growing up saturated with images of the Madonna, and her experience of motherhood first as a daughter and now as a mother.
...moreI think that the moment we’re living in offers the best opportunity we’ve had in a long time in that a lot of things having to do with identity politics are being talked about in poems.
...moreI say I am Catholic because it is easier than telling the truth.
...moreIt took me nearly twenty years and the power of a fine film to fully realize what happened to me in the confessional was an inappropriate act by an adult against a child.
...moreWilliam Giraldi talks about writing in spite of Catholicism: The Catholic O’Connor, in other words, has no Catholic agenda when she sits at the campfire to tell her story—across her singular canon all is chaos in search of grace, all is enigma unveiled but unsolved, and no credo is a clear victor. In her essay “The Church […]
...moreThe tale of a bipolar, Midwestern prostitute and her Catholic family feels all-too-familiar to our Midwest-born reviewer.
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