Possibility Is Spellbinding: The Lightness by Emily Temple
In short, lightness is the capacity to leave without regret.
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...moreMeredith Clark discusses her debut lyric memoir, LYREBIRD.
...moreMaggie Smith discusses her new book, KEEP MOVING.
...moreI won’t say I brought this on myself, but I wrote it. I wrote it myself.
...moreMolly Wizenberg discusses her new memoir, THE FIXED STARS.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...more“You’re a bomb,” Biswell says to Hope.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreThere’s a collective guilt. So, our parents buy us friends.
...moreI wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
...moreIt’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
...moreI needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.
...moreFollowing Sunday services, everyone had gathered for a potluck meal.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreAs it turned out, though, it was he who would surprise me that evening.
...moreThe dark holds me as long as I will let it.
...moreMarika Lindholm discusses WE GOT THIS: SOLO MOM STORIES OF GRIT, HEART, AND HUMOR.
...moreHow do you go on when the losses seem unbearable?
...more“This novel is my most intimate and biographical.”
...moreI don’t even know what planet I’m on!
...moreI don’t believe in redemption stories.
...moreWe sleep and we pretend to sleep. We wait for the day to turn into night.
...moreMy Filipino father refused to be upstaged by a white man’s lechon.
...morePoet Maggie Smith interviews her mentor, Kathy Fagan.
...moreIs it too much to ask: a girl to want her father to keep his feet firmly in the soil of the living?
...moreBut we can make choices if we want to live. I believe that.
...moreReema’s book teems with gorgeous metaphors.
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