Insatiable Hunger: Wanting, edited by Margot Kahn and Kelly McMasters
If I could not morph into a rescue dog doted on by childless lesbians, at least I could luxuriate in this anthology.
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Elisa Albert
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What to Read When You’re Motherless and Mothering
Chelsea Bieker shares a reading list to celebrate GODSHOT.
What to Read When the Patriarchy’s Got You Down
Contributors to INDELIBLE IN THE HIPPOCAMPUS share a reading list to fight the patriarchy blues.
What to Read When You Want to Rethink Motherhood
Rumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to challenge traditional views of motherhood!
A Pointed Narrative Choice: Talking with Lydia Kiesling
Lydia Kiesling discusses her debut novel, THE GOLDEN STATE.
What to Read When You Want to Write Like a Mother
A list of books that wrangle, directly or indirectly, with motherhood and all that comes with it (or its absence).
Notable NYC: 4/1–4/7
Saturday 4/1: Paolo Javier and Jill Magi join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 4/2: Robin Myers and translator Ezequiel Zaidenwerg discuss Conflations. Berl’s Poetry Shop, 5:30…
Notable NYC: 12/3–12/9
Saturday 12/3: Natalie Diaz and T’ai Freedom Ford join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 12/4: Jonathan Lethem discusses Italo Calvino. The Center for Fiction, 7…
The Last Book I Loved: After Birth
I wanted what Ari wanted: affirmation that I could be a good mother while making mistakes and having ugly, difficult thoughts.
The Rumpus Interview with Ariel Schrag
Screenwriter and comic book artist Ariel Schrag discusses writing for different media, identity politics, and sympathizing with a straight male teen pretending to be trans in her new novel Adam.
Goodbye to…Earth-Shattering Sex?
The Atlantic gave the Rumpus’s own Sari Botton, Melissa Febos, Mira Ptacin, and Cheryl Strayed a chance to delve deeper into their contributions to the anthology “Goodbye to All That: Writers on…