Posts Tagged: college

From the Archives: Voices on Addiction: None of This Is Bullshit

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I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.

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From the Archive: Rumpus Original Fiction—The Christmas Party

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I laugh. My laugh, this thing that sounds better on somebody else.

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Searching for Sleeper Trains

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There aren’t enough trains in Los Angeles. Not enough for me to sleep.

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How Beautiful and Rough: A Conversation with Ashley C. Ford

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Ashley C. Ford discusses her debut memoir, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.

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Hell Is a Young Man: Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent

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The brutality of frat culture, Nugent suggests, is a veneer that hardly masks its devotees’ miseries and insecurities.

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The Debt Never Promised

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I am making progress, but progress is slow.

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Divestment

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Secrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.

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An Obligation to Dream: Talking with Noé Álvarez

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Noé Álvarez discusses his debut memoir, SPIRIT RUN.

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Acclimation

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Such distinguished hybridity joined us all, animal and human, in a lonely, exclusive tribe.

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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sacred Stories”

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All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.

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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lauren J. Sharkey

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Lauren J. Sharkey discusses her debut novel, INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER.

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The Mentor Series: Emily J. Smith and Chloe Caldwell

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Emily J. Smith interviews her mentor, Chloe Caldwell.

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Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”

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I’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.

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In Protest of a Body that Refuses to End

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All I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.

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Variants of Unknown Significance

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My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.

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Radical Enough

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I still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.

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Voices on Addiction: A Body Full of Ghosts

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I’ve known since I was a child that the world is ending. I felt it in my bones.

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Inevitable Uncertainties: A Conversation with Joyce Hinnefeld

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Joyce Hinnefeld discusses her new story collection, THE BEAUTY OF THEIR YOUTH.

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Alive and Slippery: Talking with Megan Giddings

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Megan Giddings discusses her debut novel, LAKEWOOD.

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Within the Scope

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While my friends write their truths in nearby cabins, I wear my silence like a bulletproof vest.

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The Thread: Lacuna

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If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.

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