Posts Tagged: childhood
Rumpus Exclusive: “Call It Courage”
She was living in little shack balanced among the branches of a tree.
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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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On Monsters: In Darkness and in Light
This month, take a deep dive into The Rumpus’s psyche.
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On Being Seen by Toni Morrison
It’s never too late to read Toni Morrison for the first time.
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Split Chins, Open Coats
My whistle was useless. Using it felt like an insult.
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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: Remember the Time
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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Voices on Addiction: One More Conversation
That’s how I felt again, then: a child suddenly fallen, helpless. Unable even to breathe.
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Telling the Story of Now: A Conversation with Valeria Luiselli
Valeria Luiselli discusses her new novel, LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE.
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The Thread: Grown-Up Little Girls
I was a little girl and all I wanted was to grow up.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #163: Padma Venkatraman
“Stories have a power science doesn’t.”
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Jill Sobule’s Favorite Spy Cars
I wasn’t into girl stuff, but I loved James Bond!
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ENOUGH: This Is Where It Starts
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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Off the Interstate, into Real Experience: Talking with Erica Trabold
Erica Trabold discusses her debut essay collection, FIVE PLOTS.
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ENOUGH: You Are Not Forgiven
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 Perfect Childhood
Even when these questions are not articulated, they’re there.
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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 writers 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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