Rumpus Exclusive: “Call It Courage”
She was living in little shack balanced among the branches of a tree.
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Posts Tagged: death
Rumpus Exclusive: “The Hunger”
White Castle or McDonald’s? Death always made her hungry.
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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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Rumpus Exclusive: “Field Medicine”
I didn’t belong on this planet. This kind of place could not be my home.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal and Excerpt from Home Making
An exclusive cover reveal + excerpt from Lee Matalone’s debut, HOME MAKING.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Em
For her twenty-first birthday, Kiều’s younger siblings set fire to her bed.
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No One Can Be Saved: A Conversation with Amanda Goldblatt
Amanda Goldblatt discusses her debut novel, HARD MOUTH.
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The Language of Grief: Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li
To grieve is to demonstrate dedication to those we love.
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Departures and Returns: A Conversation with Sarah M. Broom
Sarah M. Broom discusses her debut memoir, THE YELLOW HOUSE.
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Mortality Probability
The first thing I realized while reading these tables: To be born is risky business.
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Trudging Down Death Road
Reveal yourself. Reveal yourself. You cannot be dead. Reveal yourself.
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A Very Precarious Moment: Talking with Karen Russell
Karen Russell discusses her newest collection, ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
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Open Letter to Our Body
The only thing I can count on to be there tomorrow is my body. And yours.
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How to Name Dead Babies
Let’s not pretend first means there’s a good place to start.
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A Kind of Balm: Angel Bones by Ilyse Kusnetz
Except she isn’t windless and neither are we, thanks to her.
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Writing and Making: A Conversation with Kristen Arnett
Kristen Arnett discusses her new novel, MOSTLY DEAD THINGS.
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Truth through Fiction: Talking with Nicole Dennis-Benn
Nicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Forty-Six
Waiting to turn forty-six is like standing in the unrelenting sunshine.
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Doing the Work of Empathy: A Conversation with Marin Sardy
Marin Sardy discusses her debut memoir, THE EDGE OF EVERY DAY: SKETCHES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA.
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Voices on Addiction: Fault Lines
After, they said I was like a saint. Death changes people’s memory.
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Allowing Space: A Conversation with Chia-Chia Lin
Chia-Chia Lin discusses her debut novel, THE UNPASSING.
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A Gentle Reckoning: Blas Falconer’s Forgive the Body This Failure
If there is distance in this collection, it originates with our own discomfort with its subject matter.
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Putting Pen to Paper: A Conversation with Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux discusses her
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Shana Cleveland’s Grandma’s Hats
It’s such a powerful symbol of who she was.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: W. S. Merwin: An Appreciation
The psyche is haunted by its own swollen intimacies, Merwin’s poems remind us.
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What Is Found There: Talking with Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox
Poets Barbara Crooker and Marjorie Maddox discuss their writing.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Orientation
The human animal was at war with itself. It was a cosmic joke with no teller.
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