Posts Tagged: family trauma

Turning the Lights On

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I feel guilt in the not good enough I carry alongside the not bad enough.

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Starting with Fire: A Conversation with Mai Der Vang

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Mai Der Vang discusses her new poetry collection, YELLOW RAIN.

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Language as a Kind of Home: Talking with Anne Liu Kellor

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Anne Liu Kellor discusses her debut memoir, HEART RADICAL.

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The Tragedy of Hope: Talking with Willa C. Richards

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Willa C. Richards discusses her debut novel, THE COMFORT OF MONSTERS.

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Inner Conversations Projected on a Surface: Bruno K. Öijer’s The Trilogy

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A family’s grief traps generations in a search for insight.

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Reinventing the Truth: A Conversation with Anna Qu

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Anna Qu discusses her debut memoir, MADE IN CHINA.

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Rumpus Original Fiction: Daddies and Sons

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When Jeb was old enough to have a family of his own, he hardly ever laid hands on his boys.

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A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing

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I hope, by writing this, language can jar a wound.

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Uncollapsing Memory: A Conversation with Vince Granata

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Vince Granata discusses his debut memoir, EVERYTHING IS FINE.

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Laraine Herring

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“That’s the power of art, I think. It is transformative. It can love us all back home.”

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Depths of Story: Who’s Your Daddy by Arisa White

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The inherited wounds cut so deep one wonders if they can ever be fully healed.

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Landscape as Mindscape: A Conversation with Michael Prior

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Michael Prior discusses his new collection of poetry, BURNING PROVENCE.

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We Can Be Both Torn and Whole: Talking with Jeannine Ouellette

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Jeannine Ouelette discusses her debut memoir, THE PART THAT BURNS.

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The Gothic Horror of the Fourth Trimester: Talking with Julia Fine

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Julia Fine discusses her new novel, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE.

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Voices on Addiction: Thief in the Night

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Addiction steals your integrity. Your freedom, too.

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Sleeping with Myself

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I exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.

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Dark and Light at the Same Time: A Conversation with Fariha Róisín

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Fariha Róisín discusses her debut novel, LIKE A BIRD.

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Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam

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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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Finding Firm Ground: A Conversation with Nadia Owusu

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Nadia Owusu discusses her debut memoir, AFTERSHOCKS.

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Writing What Bothers: A Conversation with Frances Cha

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Frances Cha discusses her debut novel, IF I HAD YOUR FACE.

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