Turning the Lights On
I feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.
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Posts Tagged: depression
Holding Together What’s Left: The Blues of Heaven by Barbara Ras
You want to, but do you? Do you dare hope?
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Wow, Mom!: Mom Genes by Abigail Tucker
The best books I have read about motherhood have not reassured me that these feelings will resolve.
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Pick Your Pleasure: Talking with Liz Asch
Liz Asch discusses her new book, YOUR SALT ON MY LIPS.
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The Fractures of Motherhood: Julia Fine’s The Upstairs House
Like Fine’s uniquely constructed book, being a mom is to be permanently fractured.
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The More Painful Absence: Keema Waterfield’s Inside Passage
In this lush and raw account, musicians play, voices harmonize and then separate again, town after Alaska town rolls by… and Waterfield searches for home.
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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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Voices on Addiction: Safety in a Blue Light
Television babysat our family—our thirteen-channel set, reception via a rooftop antenna.
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Voices on Addiction: Semillas
I grieve my father’s disembodiment. It is my grief inheritance.
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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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On Collective Trauma and Resilience: Talking with S. Kirk Walsh
S. Kirk Walsh discusses her debut novel, THE ELEPHANT OF BELFAST.
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Beauty in a Cold Season: Katherine May’s Wintering
As we go, we are breathlessly held in an in-between state, a limbo, a transition.
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Life Is Odd: A Conversation with Dinty W. Moore
Dinty W. Moore discusses his new essay collection, TO HELL WITH IT.
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Emotional Support Brownies
Why was I crying over a can of seasoned squash?
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Asking the Right Questions: Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom becomes an experiment in itself.
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Dark and Light at the Same Time: A Conversation with Fariha Róisín
Fariha Róisín discusses her debut novel, LIKE A BIRD.
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Finding Firm Ground: A Conversation with Nadia Owusu
Nadia Owusu discusses her debut memoir, AFTERSHOCKS.
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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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Making It Through: A Conversation with Kelly J. Baker
Kelly J. Baker discusses her new essay collection, FINAL GIRL.
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Writing to Cope: Talking with Yaffa S. Santos
Yaffa S. Santos discusses her debut novel, A TASTE OF SAGE.
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Survival Soup
You could say that I have trained for this pandemic all my life.
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No Story Ever Really Ends: Talking with Amy Long
Amy Long discusses her debut book, CODEPENDENCE.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #230: Carley Moore
“I like to tell my secrets.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Reina with White Roses
A block away from my house, Reina killed herself.
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Bring the Inward Outward: Talking with Greg Mania
Greg Mania discusses his debut memoir, BORN TO BE PUBLIC.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Matthew Salesses
Matthew Salesses discusses his new novel, DISAPPEAR DOPPELGÄNGER DISAPPEAR.
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Living Memory Keepers: Talking with Alicia Elliott
Alicia Elliott discusses her essay collection, A MIND SPREAD OUT ON THE GROUND.
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Trauma as Inheritance: Adam P. Frankel’s The Survivors
The survivor is left to ponder whom he has become.
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Lingering on Darkness: Sleepovers by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
When Ashleigh Bryant Phillips lets loose, she can shock.
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