Bones of Buried Kings
What makes a body violable? This jaw, a piece of evidence. This body, the remains of a life.
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Join NOW!What makes a body violable? This jaw, a piece of evidence. This body, the remains of a life.
...moreIs he there? Does he hear? Does he understand?
...moreI’ll always wish for one last dim sum, one more time to hear the words “I love you, too.”
...moreAfter the anger came a deep, resigned sadness, as if her cruise were canceled at the last minute. She’s stuck on the shore of her life, watching everyone she loves sail into the distance.
...moreThe Rumpus Book Club chats with Jon Raymond about his new novel Freebird, intergenerational trauma, and the unshakeable love of family.
...moreIt was as if he understood that the authentic must begin in the voice. And through the texture of the voice—its moral and psychological claims—sensory details emerge with absolute authority.
...moreI’m constantly making up stories, and writing histories, even when I’m not putting them into songs.
...more[T]he questions pile up, never to be answered.
...moreMathew Daddona’s father and uncle were adopted into different families. When they reunited with each other and their biological father as adults, they uncovered connections that extend through the generations.
...moreThe curse of being a writer is knowing other people. I need other people (to write about) but I can’t handle other people (the way I can literary characters).
...moreThe mountains of Alabama are small mountains—foothills, really—but they are mine like a sports team is mine—like a football game (which I have for so long been near but have not really, really seen) is mine—as in the phrase “We scored! We scored!”
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