Rumpus Original Fiction: New Build
“What do we do about the new build?” I ask. “Do we finish it? Sell it? Finish it, then sell it?”
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Posts Tagged: divorce
Voices on Addiction: Searching for Gwen
This was a reconnaissance mission. My intention was to save her, not alienate her.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hatch
What did it matter? It was June and the salmonfly hatch had begun.
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How We Create Ourselves: Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The voice reaches and reaches at answers to broad questions. Sometimes it pulls back pieces of insight and beauty.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Barong
Appearance aside, my boss took his work seriously.
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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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The Legality of Love
I remember when I learned there is a syntax to love.
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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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A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing
I hope, by writing this, language can jar a wound.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal for Flight Risk
An exclusive look at the cover of Joy Castro’s forthcoming novel, FLIGHT RISK.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Notes Toward the End of the World
At the beginning of the trip, we couldn’t wait to reach the end of the world.
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Claiming Our Untold Stories: Talking with Gina Frangello
Gina Frangello discusses her debut memoir, BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN.
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Reimagining the Whole Damn World: A Conversation with Sonora Jha
Sonora Jha discusses her new book, HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON.
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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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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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Sleeping with Myself
I exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.
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Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam
But Griner is too skilled a realist to allow The Book of Otto and Liam to become a simple revenge story.
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Possibility Is Spellbinding: The Lightness by Emily Temple
In short, lightness is the capacity to leave without regret.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Alone?
Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
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Touching What Once Was: A Conversation with Meredith Clark
Meredith Clark discusses her debut lyric memoir, LYREBIRD.
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Voices on Addiction: None of This Is Bullshit
I was fine. No one and nothing could hurt me.
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Owning Your Piles: A Conversation with Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith discusses her new book, KEEP MOVING.
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I Wrote a Road Trip through the Apocalypse, Then We Drove It
I won’t say I brought this on myself, but I wrote it. I wrote it myself.
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A Story That Won’t Behave: Talking with Molly Wizenberg
Molly Wizenberg discusses her new memoir, THE FIXED STARS.
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ENOUGH: Beautiful Teeth
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Biswell and Hope, the Surprise Pregnancy, Conception
“You’re a bomb,” Biswell says to Hope.
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ENOUGH: Trapped
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Teddy Ruxpin
There’s a collective guilt. So, our parents buy us friends.
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What Toulouse-Lautrec Taught Me about Intimacy
I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
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