Child as Mother to the Woman: Catherine Gammon’s China Blue
In this book we are taken by all three: language, plot, character.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Morowa Yejidé
Morowa Yejidé discusses her new novel, CREATURES OF PASSAGE.
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We Can Be Both Torn and Whole: Talking with Jeannine Ouellette
Jeannine Ouelette discusses her debut memoir, THE PART THAT BURNS.
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Voices on Addiction: Heroin/e
She introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Happens to Girls
There is pleasure in his eyes that is not just good acting.
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ENOUGH: The Telling of It
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Rumpus Interview Mini-Interview Project #216: Corinne Manning
“I’ve never had a book happen to me the way WE HAD NO RULES did.”
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ENOUGH: Original Fiction: The Lines of the Space Between Us
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Lady Justice
I imagine Lady Justice’s fingers tipping the scales: Rose to leave, and me to sleep.
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ENOUGH: Good Girls Don’t Sing
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Transcending the Trauma: A Conversation with Tracy Strauss
Tracy Strauss discusses her debut memoir, I JUST HAVEN’T MET YOU YET.
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A Different Kind of Balance: Talking with Samantha Giles
Poet Samantha Giles discusses her newest collection, TOTAL RECALL.
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ENOUGH: Beneath the Towering Pines
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: A Fraying, Taut Rope
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Intersecting and Diverging Narratives: Talking with Michele Filgate
Michele Filgate discusses her forthcoming anthology, WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #165: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
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Peripheral Terror: Total Recall by Samantha Giles
There is horror in how a memory can be altered or rendered “false” by exterior forces.
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ENOUGH: Pleasure, Habit, or Force
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: One of the Lucky Ones
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: Finding My Abuser on Facebook
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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ENOUGH: If You Hadn’t Happened
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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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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Bearing Witness: Because: A Lyric Memoir by Joshua Mensch
Because is a call for more stories with specifics so well-rendered.
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ENOUGH: Skeleton Key
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Winning Always Involves Sacrificing: Talking with Dickson Lam
Dickson Lam discusses his debut memoir, Paper Sons, the writing advice that transformed his approach to thee book, and the duty of a memoirist.
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ENOUGH: On Junot Díaz, from a Survivor
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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House Rules: Lessons in Autofiction
You try to pass yourself off as a rock and the water just laughs. You try anyway.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Even the Moon
When you finished, several minutes passed before we spoke. You dipped a finger in a pool of candle wax. How could I know this was the only real secret you’d ever kept?
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The Thread: Volcanoes
Is there a relationship between the violence that came through me, and the violence that came at me?
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