On Hauntings and Huntings: Talking with Jihyun Yun
Jihyun Yun discusses her debut poetry collection, SOME ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY.
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Posts Tagged: gender inequality
FUNNY WOMEN: How to Write the Perfect Fantasy Novel
Get creative! “Brian” could become “Bryawn,” courter of women, slayer of ogres.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #231: Ruth O. Saxton
“While the past remains always present, old women exist in the present.”
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I Wrote a Road Trip through the Apocalypse, Then We Drove It
I won’t say I brought this on myself, but I wrote it. I wrote it myself.
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Building and Building: Talking with Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears Jones discusses her body of work, the future of poetry, and more.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Neither Wicked Witch nor Fairy Godmother”
[W]hat was going wrong? Why were our stories not being written or published?
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Telling Our Own Stories: A Conversation with Kate Reed Petty
Kate Reed Petty discusses her debut novel, TRUE STORY.
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Quiet, Radical Defiance: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
Education, work, study: these were not simply a means to an end.
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Hybrid by Nature: A Conversation with Tara Campbell
Tara Campbell discusses her new book, POLITICAL AF: A RAGE COLLECTION.
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Mothers and Daughters: Girl by Veronica Golos
Bodies become something to escape from or leave behind.
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Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned
In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan
“Memoir is about recreating the complexities of a life.”
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Marital Piss
My body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
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Losing the World
When we begin life, language is play.
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Tech Is Boring: Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
Luckily, Wiener offers us more than eloquent masochism.
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A Tightrope Act: Frozen Charlotte by Susan de Sola
It’s de Sola’s genuineness in portraying this tightrope act that is Frozen Charlotte’s chief virtue.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #218: Rufi Thorpe
“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
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Circuitous Journeys: Talking with Sejal Shah
Sejal Shah discusses her debut essay collection, THIS IS ONE WAY TO DANCE.
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On Loss of Land and Loss of Girlhood: Taneum Bambrick’s Vantage
Girlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
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What It Means to Be a Human: Talking with Maggie Downs
Maggie Downs discusses her debut memoir, BRAVER THAN YOU THINK.
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The Joypain of Parenting: Lydia Kiesling’s The Golden State
This is both the exercise and exorcism of motherhood.
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Something to React To: A Conversation with Ivy Pochoda
Ivy Pochoda discusses her newest novel, THESE WOMEN.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Mary-Kim Arnold
Mary-Kim Arnold discusses her new poetry collection, THE FISH & THE DOVE.
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Inhabitation and Invocation: Candice Wuehle’s Death Industrial Complex
The speaker must believe in transience, in shapeshifting without permission.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Chelsea Bieker
Chelsea Bieker discusses her debut novel, GODSHOT.
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Panning for Gold: A Conversation with C Pam Zhang
C Pam Zhang discusses her debut novel, HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #211: Rachel Vorona Cote
“Ultimately, this is who I am. I can only write honestly, and from where I live.”
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We Will Not Be Contained: Pretty Bitches and Too Much
There will always be another word used against us.
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ENOUGH: Flesh and Bone and Ash
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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