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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Posts Tagged: death
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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Spotlight: “As Before, So Behind (redux)”
What follows is an attempt to speak to the living, as well as the dead.
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Letters in the Early Light of Morning
Maybe you have come to save us. From what? From ourselves.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Man from Washington
They had, together, built something that, while not without its faults, was strong.
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The Thread: Fatherless
I create myself, raise myself. I am mine.
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Life after Death: A Conversation with Tessa Hadley
Tessa Hadley discusses her newest novel, LATE IN THE DAY.
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Death, Doorways, and Dance
Acceptance is a fluid dance
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Voices on Addiction: War Hero
A seagull plummeted into the wounded water.
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Spotlight: “My Dead Friend’s Favorite Book”
Whenever I need to be close to Chelsea and the lessons she taught me, all I have to do is read.
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R.I.P.: Baby Bird
So much land, so much quiet.
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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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Writing When Your Life Depends on It
Do I want to live, or do I want to write? Sometimes I think it’s that simple.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Basement
Looking back, it feels like I knew.
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My Nebraska is Only One Nebraska: Erica Trabold’s Five Plots
Five Plots wades into the enigmatic relationships between family and memory, where truth is seemingly as placid as the Platte River but re-examination causes a re-route.
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A Weeping Tree of His Own: Yasunari Kawabata’s Dandelions
Blindness as a concept is central to Kawabata’s novel, where every character is blind to something.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Love Is That?
Nothing in Texas came easy.
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