Rumpus Exclusive: “Tick Tock Write”
“Tick tock tick tock,” Raven says. “It’s my departure or yours.”
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Posts Tagged: death
There Are No Cheap Seats in Lauren Shapiro’s Arena
Resonance is a given. You can’t help but hear. In Lauren Shapiro’s Arena, every seat is the best seat in the house.
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Acts of Love: Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Zauner’s memoir is not a performance, but an act of love, including all the dirty little bits that come with it.
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Inner Conversations Projected on a Surface: Bruno K. Öijer’s The Trilogy
A family’s grief traps generations in a search for insight.
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Voices on Addiction: System Failure
“Was it vodka?” Mama said. Her voice had cracks in it. Why ask? She knew.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Human”
Man was living on the moon but Medicare was still a disaster.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Barong
Appearance aside, my boss took his work seriously.
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Discovering the Thought: A Conversation with Andrés Cerpa
Andrés Cerpa discusses his new poetry collection, THE VAULT.
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We Are Not Gods: Talking with Elizabeth Ellen
Elizabeth Ellen discusses her new story collection, HER LESSER WORK.
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Poetry as Incantation: Talking with Andrea Actis
Andrea Actis discusses her debut book, GREY ALL OVER.
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Accidental Altars
Choose, the specter points in opposite directions.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Daddies and Sons
When Jeb was old enough to have a family of his own, he hardly ever laid hands on his boys.
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Omayra (In Other Words)
I wonder, then, what it is to die. Perhaps to die is a matter of location.
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A Girl-Body Filled with Animals
There was nothing in the world I had ever needed to do quite like dance.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Purity Party
I used to be able to teach sex without thinking about sex.
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Uncollapsing Memory: A Conversation with Vince Granata
Vince Granata discusses his debut memoir, EVERYTHING IS FINE.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Laraine Herring
“That’s the power of art, I think. It is transformative. It can love us all back home.”
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Both of These Things Are True: Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger
The frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Gina Nutt
“I like marinating in uncertainty for as long as possible.”
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We Are More: The Docent and the Novelist
I’ve been explaining the Armenian Genocide all my life.
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My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
It’s true that when I speak of machines I also mean dimensions.
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A Space of Sanctuary: Mother Country by Elana Bell
The body, like a country, holds so much, and all at once.
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Voices on Addiction: Family Tree
The toll I took on people I love can’t be measured. But I want to know.
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The Light Endures: 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins
Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
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True Detective and a Greyhound: On Imagination and Survival
It’s exhausting, I realize, to constantly convince myself that I matter.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos
It’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
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Unprepared Blue Birds
In deep grief, we rotate inside of a funhouse.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Tangible Darkness
The ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
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Some of the Places I Am Stuck
I lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”
There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
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