Writing Hurricanes and Conjuring Ghosts: A Conversation with J. Nicole Jones
J. Nicole Jones discusses her debut memoir, LOW COUNTRY.
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Posts Tagged: grandmothers
Rumpus Exclusive: “The Ides of March”
What they really needed in Pleasantview was light.
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My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
It’s true that when I speak of machines I also mean dimensions.
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Allowing for Breathing Room: A Conversation with Jessica Lind Peterson
Jessica Lind Peterson discusses her debut essay collection, SOUND LIKE TRAPPED THUNDER.
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Finding Healing in Gospel Music
I wasn’t pressured to be stoic. I was permitted to release. I was permitted to be.
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On Resilience, Tender Rituals, and Responsible Love: Talking with Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon discusses the revised HOW TO SLOWLY KILL YOURSELF AND OTHERS IN AMERICA.
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Spotlight: “My Grandmother’s Pancake Recipe”
My grandmother, Frankie L. Baker, was born 72 years before me.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “A Kind of Fairy Tale”
Happiness never seemed to linger. She often wondered why.
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On Hauntings and Huntings: Talking with Jihyun Yun
Jihyun Yun discusses her debut poetry collection, SOME ARE ALWAYS HUNGRY.
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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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Body Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Teddy Ruxpin
There’s a collective guilt. So, our parents buy us friends.
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The Spot You’re Standing In: A Conversation with Chris Dennis
Chris Dennis discusses his debut story collection, HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.
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Food, Family, and Strong Female Characters: A Conversation with J. Ryan Stradal
J. Ryan Stradal discusses his new novel, THE LAGER QUEEN OF MINNESOTA.
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Curse of Beauty
My daughter is beautiful. I wanted to be beautiful. And isn’t she a reflection of me?
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Rumpus Exclusive: “In the Kitchen”
Women 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.
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Multitudes: (Re) Writing Mother
I like to listen to my mother’s voice; the sounds she makes in an English-Korean mashup; we are each the other’s dictionary.
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The Rumpus Interview with Naomi Jackson
Naomi 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.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: We Be Bleeding
It will be red like your neighbor’s convertible. And like that convertible, there will be a spreading open, an exposure of vulnerable flesh.
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Spotlight: “Distance” by AshleyRose Sullivan
“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.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Do You Have a Beau?
Shame is the haunting that’s hardest to scrub away.
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Daisy Duke and the Manosphere
The story goes, if you can dehumanize a population with a stereotype, there’s no need to share their fate.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Stars Hollow, Revisited
They always find their way back to one another again.
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We Who Leave
I 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.
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Three Things I Have Never Told Anyone
Does 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.
...moreThe Doris Lessing Movie Adaptation No One Talks About
Amanda 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. […]
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A Brief History of Swans
We frighten away boyfriends, lovers, strangers, and we do not mind, because we are together: together, we are glorious.
...moreWeekend Rumpus Roundup
We 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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