Rumpus Exclusive: “The Human”
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...moreWhen Jeb was old enough to have a family of his own, he hardly ever laid hands on his boys.
...moreThere are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
...moreJudith H. Montgomery discusses her latest poetry collection, MERCY.
...more“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
...moreThe first thing I realized while reading these tables: To be born is risky business.
...moreThe only thing I can count on to be there tomorrow is my body. And yours.
...moreThe human animal was at war with itself. It was a cosmic joke with no teller.
...moreDo I want to live, or do I want to write? Sometimes I think it’s that simple.
...moreBeing reminded of your mortality on a constant basis makes your life so much better.
...moreJohn Freeman discusses his debut collection of poetry, Maps, displacement, empathy, and trying to find a way forward in the nation and the world.
...moreVictoria Redel discusses her newest novel, Before Everything, living through and beyond grief, and why she loves secrets.
...moreAfter the anger came a deep, resigned sadness, as if her cruise were canceled at the last minute. She’s stuck on the shore of her life, watching everyone she loves sail into the distance.
...moreThere are hard lessons about aging and dying and living on You Want It Darker that we’re not going to ever be done with until we either cure death or forget Leonard Cohen.
...moreGeorge Saunders discusses his new (and first) novel Lincoln in the Bardo, Donald Trump, and a comprehensive theory of literature.
...moreJennifer Martelli discusses her debut collection of poetry, The Uncanny Valley, growing up saturated with images of the Madonna, and her experience of motherhood first as a daughter and now as a mother.
...moreJacqueline Woodson discusses her latest novel Another Brooklyn, the little deaths of lost friendships, and her work with children across the country as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate.
...moreI left my family’s home in the US afterward because I didn’t know how to stay in the same place where everything had changed.
...moreColin Dickey writes about death and its metaphors. Our dog has an insatiable curiosity and a love of these dead things. The time he dove into the wreck of a carcass that I could not even identify was the most horrifying of all. I remind myself that I am projecting my revulsion, but because it […]
...moreMy mother’s body horrified me. Nine years old, I watched her dress. Her belly was rippled and sagged and scarred—a used-up bag of nothing.
...moreOver at The Weeklings, find an excerpt from Sean Murphy’s book Please Talk about Me When I’m Gone: A Memoir of My Mother. You learn not to talk to the stars, or you eventually realize it’s senseless to hope they can hear you. Yet enough people need to have their actions explained that we made […]
...more“Don’t worry, I’m not dying,” said my wife Sheila. But she was.
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