The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Janice P. Nimura
Janice P. Nimura discusses her new book, THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL.
...moreJanice P. Nimura discusses her new book, THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL.
...moreYi Shun Lai discusses her new memoir, PIN UPS.
...moreAvni Doshi discusses her debut novel, BURNT SUGAR.
...moreEula Biss discusses her new book, HAVING AND BEING HAD.
...moreLanguage enacts violence through manipulation.
...more[Y]ou can’t grow up in a cultural milieu and be immune to what it loves.
...moreFor the longest time, John Stanley’s Little Lulu was one of the best kept secrets in comics.
...moreIt is fifteen years after the renovation, and St. Mark’s struggles to breathe.
...moreTo be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
...moreDestiny O. Birdsong discusses her debut poetry collection, NEGOTIATIONS.
...moreShe knows how to yell, but wouldn’t yell if her life depended on it.
...more“And as those masks fall away, we get down to the shame and envy underneath.”
...moreMaggie Smith discusses her new book, KEEP MOVING.
...moreI refuse to play the part, but I play the part.
...moreIt was strange what the nudity did to us—what the nakedness undid.
...moreAngie Cruz discusses her newest novel, DOMINICANA.
...moreSarah Smarsh discusses her new book, SHE COME BY IT NATURAL.
...moreSecrecy stitched us a fraudulent reality. Denial masqueraded as hope.
...moreThat was when she realized: the ticking was coming from inside herself.
...moreIt’s hard to see what isn’t there.
...moreWho am I and where do I go from here?
...moreJihyun Yun discusses her debut poetry collection, SOME ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY.
...moreGet creative! “Brian” could become “Bryawn,” courter of women, slayer of ogres.
...more“While the past remains always present, old women exist in the present.”
...moreI won’t say I brought this on myself, but I wrote it. I wrote it myself.
...morePatricia Spears Jones discusses her body of work, the future of poetry, and more.
...more[W]hat was going wrong? Why were our stories not being written or published?
...moreKate Reed Petty discusses her debut novel, TRUE STORY.
...moreEducation, work, study: these were not simply a means to an end.
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