The Perfect Childhood
Even when these questions are not articulated, they’re there.
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Posts Tagged: childhood
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #147: Saadia Faruqi
“If you can’t really tell the whole story in five thousand words, are you really a writer?”
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Sharp and Twisty and Complicated: Talking with Melanie Abrams
Melanie Abrams discusses her debut novel, PLAYING, and a forthcoming novel, MEADOWLARK.
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The Body That Is Terra Nullius
My body is a terra nullius, belonging to no one, not even me.
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Inborn Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact
Maybe you were whistling before you could talk, too.
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Songs of Our Lives: “Off to War”
This is fault-line music, dangerous in an unassuming way.
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The Quiet of a Ghost: Talking with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Ingrid Rojas Contreras discusses her debut novel, FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE.
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Pulling the Thread Through: Talking with Tina Alexis Allen
Tina Alexis Allen discusses her memoir, HIDING OUT.
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ENOUGH: Skeleton Key
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Voices on Addiction: Spontaneous Combustion
I remember hunger the way other children remember love.
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I Can’t Shake the Guru Bhagwan
In 1979, my mother decided she wanted to join Bhagwan’s ashram in Pune, India.
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The Depths We Don’t Have Words For: Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s Echolocation
[R]eading these poems feels like looking down into deep water, being able to see only so far and no farther.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #133: Jake Shears
“I wrote this book. I worked really, really hard on it, and I was a little scared by it.”
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Mystery and the Unknown: Talking with Lauren Haldeman
Lauren Haldeman discusses her most recent poetry collection, Instead of Dying, making poetry accessible, and being open to the surprising possibilities of form.
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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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Unsettled Terrain: Rummage by Ife-Chudeni A. Oputa
If shame works by convincing us that we are bad, by pinning us into a definition of badness, then the poems in Rummage resist by refusing to be pinned at all.
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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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What Did You Expect, Though?
The immune system, meant to protect a body from foreign invaders, works too assiduously, sees danger where there is none, turns on itself. Such conditions lend themselves to metaphor.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Passing as Privileged”
I don’t feel ashamed of my history, I feel ashamed of letting it be erased.
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Voices on Addiction: What We Forget, What We Remember
I don’t remember when [my brother] ran away; I just remember him being gone more often than not.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #120: Jeannie Vanasco
“If you’ve ever seen a video by somebody running and filming at the same time, that’s what the world looked like: shaky, fast, in and out of focus.”
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Hearse and Home: How Stephen King Saved My Girlhood
Down the steps of the second-story apartment above the hearse garage and across the alley was the library.
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Spotlight: “Rooftops of My Youth” by Frances Cannon
A comic describing the illustrator’s childhood adventures and misadventures climbing rooftops of all sorts.
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After the Telling
We want to protect our children from everything, even sometimes ourselves.
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TORCH: Twitch
America: land where anything can and does happen. Doors blow open by magic when you step on a rubber mat.
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The Dark All Around Us
There is still light in the dark. This is the paradox that Little Bear has to accept in order to fall asleep.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Seasonal Work
[T]he thing about Gary was that he could believe what he needed to believed when he needed to believe it. So, technically, he never lied.
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The Thread: Object Lessons
Sex doesn’t need to be shameful. Objectification should be.
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