Rumpus Original Fiction: First Love
We met in a dorm hallway, half past midnight.
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Posts Tagged: gay
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Paul Lisicky
Paul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
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Bridging Narratives: Talking with Jenn Shapland
Jenn Shapland discusses her debut book, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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A New Version of Possibility: Talking with Juliana Delgado Lopera
Juliana Delgado Lopera discusses their new novel, FIEBRE TROPICAL.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #208: Stephen Van Dyck
“This reality is so much dustier, smellier, and bitterer than it seems through a screen.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jenn Shapland
Jenn Shapland discusses MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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Moral Fiction: Talking with Brandon Taylor
Brandon Taylor discusses his debut novel, REAL LIFE.
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Turning Purple: The Year of the Defector
I needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.
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The Right Wrong Note: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell discusses his new book, CLEANNESS.
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The Thread: Lacuna
If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
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Beyond the Manicured Surfaces: Talking with Aaron Smith
Aaron Smith discusses his new poetry collection, THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
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The Spot You’re Standing In: A Conversation with Chris Dennis
Chris Dennis discusses his debut story collection, HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.
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Diner Boys
But then, full of longing to be someone other than I was, his work seemed perfect.
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The Mania of Queer Desire: In Praise of Fever Ray’s Plunge
I remember driving a bird mad once.
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The Desire to Be: Talking with Garrard Conley and Taylor Larsen
Garrard Conley and Taylor Larsen discuss their recent work.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #180: De’Shawn Charles Winslow
“Everyone, to varying degrees, is in everyone’s business and life.”
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Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me
As long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
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How I Love Her: On Depression and Suicidal Ideation
Maybe the worst part about living with this is that it doesn’t leave me.
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Objectivity Is My Enemy: A Conversation with Dave Cullen
Dave Cullen discusses his new book, PARKLAND: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #170: Richard Blanco
“I guess you could say that engineering paved the road to poetry for me, pardon the pun.”
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Gutting the Sonnet: A Conversation with Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown discusses his third collection, THE TRADITION.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #165: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
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Good Enough: Foraging for Answers with Mary Oliver
Creation begets death which begets more creation.
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Ablutions: A Triptych
I am twenty the first time I turn the water red.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Man from Washington
They had, together, built something that, while not without its faults, was strong.
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It’s A Boy!
I was supposed to be a girl, they said. But the Lord works in mysterious ways, doesn’t He?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Lifers
We were beginning to exist on the periphery of our own lives.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: An Other Man
This is a carousel that never slows to a point where you can board gracefully.
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The Queer Syllabus: Velvet Goldmine by Todd Haynes
In The Queer Syllabus, writers nominate works for a new canon of queer literature.
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Mixed Feelings: Two Roads Diverged at a Picket Fence
Here we are standing the woods. Which path should we take?
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