Spotlight: “My Grandmother’s Pancake Recipe”
My grandmother, Frankie L. Baker, was born 72 years before me.
...moreMy grandmother, Frankie L. Baker, was born 72 years before me.
...moreHappiness never seemed to linger. She often wondered why.
...moreJihyun Yun discusses her debut poetry collection, SOME ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY.
...more[W]hat was going wrong? Why were our stories not being written or published?
...moreI needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
...moreThere’s a collective guilt. So, our parents buy us friends.
...moreChris Dennis discusses his debut story collection, HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.
...moreJ. Ryan Stradal discusses his new novel, THE LAGER QUEEN OF MINNESOTA.
...moreMy daughter is beautiful. I wanted to be beautiful. And isn’t she a reflection of me?
...moreWomen grooming their daughters to be good housewives teach them how to cook, no? A woman grooming her daughter to be something else in the world would keep her out of the kitchen.
...moreI like to listen to my mother’s voice; the sounds she makes in an English-Korean mashup; we are each the other’s dictionary.
...moreNaomi Jackson discusses her debut novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill, how she approached writing about mental illness and its affects on a family, and choosing to to tell a story from multiple perspectives.
...moreIt will be red like your neighbor’s convertible. And like that convertible, there will be a spreading open, an exposure of vulnerable flesh.
...more“Distance” is part of a growing collection of graphic essays in which AshleyRose Sullivan tries to make sense of her oddball family history by looking at it through the lens of popular culture.
...moreShame is the haunting that’s hardest to scrub away.
...moreThe story goes, if you can dehumanize a population with a stereotype, there’s no need to share their fate.
...moreThey always find their way back to one another again.
...moreI could not bring myself to talk about losing my last living grandparent, because talking about her would mean talking about the literal and figurative ocean between where I come from and where I am now.
...moreDoes it seem now like I believe in God and he is a comfort to me? I don’t, and he isn’t. And yet this story is a comfort to me.
...moreAmanda Shubert, who recently interviewed Ronee Blakley for the Rumpus, has a thought-provoking piece up about Adore, the film adaptation of Doris Lessing’s novella “The Grandmothers.” It’s a challenging story in either format, dealing as it does with “women who sleep with one another’s teenage sons,” but Shubert argues that the movie is the superior version. […]
...moreWe frighten away boyfriends, lovers, strangers, and we do not mind, because we are together: together, we are glorious.
...moreWe hope you were so busy taking your mamas out to brunch and showering them with love and appreciation that you simply had no time for The Rumpus this weekend. We celebrated Mother’s Day with two very different interviews that ended up being the same in many ways.
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