How We Create Ourselves: Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The voice reaches and reaches at answers to broad questions. Sometimes it pulls back pieces of insight and beauty.
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Posts Tagged: gender inequality
Scrutinizing the Ties That Bind: Melissa Febos’s Girlhood
By the end of the collection, Febos has managed to rewrite or erase entirely many parts of the patriarchal script that held her bound.
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Malus Domestica
Apples do not grow “true to seed,” meaning that what you put in the ground isn’t always what comes back out of it.
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The Ugly Side of Ambition: A Conversation with Joy Lanzendorfer
Joy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Kristy’s Invisible Hand and Das Baby-Sitters Club Kapital”
The babysitters inspired me, and Kristy’s entrepreneurial vision seemed plain yet elegant; easy-to-follow, too.
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Hypocrisy Is Ripe for Stories: Talking with Melissa Scholes Young
Melissa Scholes Young discusses her new novel, THE HIVE.
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Not the Only One: A Conversation with Zakiya Dalila Harris
Zakiya Dalila Harris discusses her debut novel, THE OTHER BLACK GIRL.
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Something Constructive Out of Chaos: Talking with Suzanne Koven
Suzanne Koven discusses her new memoir, LETTER TO A YOUNG FEMALE PHYSICIAN.
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Work Isn’t All Hardship: Talking with Kikuko Tsumura
Kikuko Tsumura discusses her newly translated novel, THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS AN EASY JOB.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Kim Addonizio
“Poetry is a mode of thinking through things that I can’t really articulate.”
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mnemonics”
I’m not sure why it didn’t occur to us then that we could all become excellent doctors.
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Claiming Our Untold Stories: Talking with Gina Frangello
Gina Frangello discusses her debut memoir, BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN.
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Language Is the Spell: Kathryn Nuernberger’s The Witch of Eye
A compendium of pungent and poignant biographical narratives of numerous so-called witches, The Witch of Eye is difficult to put down.
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Everything Must Change: A Conversation with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos discusses her new essay collection, GIRLHOOD.
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Voices on Addiction: Family Tree
The toll I took on people I love can’t be measured. But I want to know.
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Making a Shelter of Language: A Conversation with Bhaswati Ghosh
Bhaswati Ghosh discusses her debut novel, VICTORY COLONY, 1950.
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Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney
Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sheila Squillante
“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
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Sleeping with Myself
I exist in a field of landmines, never quite sure when one will go off or why.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Janice P. Nimura
Janice P. Nimura discusses her new book, THE DOCTORS BLACKWELL.
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Scratching Until You Find the Itch: A Conversation with Yi Shun Lai
Yi Shun Lai discusses her new memoir, PIN UPS.
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We’re All Difficult Women Now: Talking with Avni Doshi
Avni Doshi discusses her debut novel, BURNT SUGAR.
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Imposing the Life on the System: A Conversation with Eula Biss
Eula Biss discusses her new book, HAVING AND BEING HAD.
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Interrogating Language: Carlos Andrés Gómez’s Fractures
Language enacts violence through manipulation.
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A Different Kind of Butterfly Effect: Frances Cha’s If I Had Your Face
[Y]ou can’t grow up in a cultural milieu and be immune to what it loves.
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Spotlight: The Rumpus Review of John Stanley’s Little Lulu
For the longest time, John Stanley’s Little Lulu was one of the best kept secrets in comics.
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Save St. Mark’s
It is fifteen years after the renovation, and St. Mark’s struggles to breathe.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Overlook
To be a woman in this world is to be adopted by other women.
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Revisiting and Reinventing the Body: A Conversation with Destiny O. Birdsong
Destiny O. Birdsong discusses her debut poetry collection, NEGOTIATIONS.
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