From the Archive: The Rumpus Interview with Jade Sharma
Jade Sharma discusses her first novel Problems, the complicated feelings that came with debuting to rave reviews, and her writing and editing processes.
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Posts Tagged: Heroin
Rumpus Original Fiction: Greener
I can tell he knows exactly what kind of trouble I like.
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Before the First Book: A Roundtable Discussion
With Steven Espada Dawson, Elisa Gonzalez, and Gaia Rajan.
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Voices On Addiction: A Conversation with James Brown and Patrick O’Neil
James Brown and Patrick O’Neil discuss WRITING YOUR WAY TO RECOVERY.
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Both of These Things Are True: Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger
The frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger discusses her debut essay collection, NEGATIVE SPACE.
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Everything Must Change: A Conversation with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos discusses her new essay collection, GIRLHOOD.
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Asking the Right Questions: Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom becomes an experiment in itself.
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Voices on Addiction: Heroin/e
She introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
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Voices on Addiction: There Were Also Girls, Women
I always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.
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Voices on Addiction: Call Us Beautiful
I’m saying people can be imperfect and still be remembered as beautiful.
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Voices on Addiction: Katie Calls
I want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
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What Toulouse-Lautrec Taught Me about Intimacy
I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
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Voices on Addiction: The Opposite of Hallelujah
When I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Where to Find Him
It felt like the sun beating down on closed eyelids.
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Voices on Addiction: Jokerman
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
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Friction Wherever You Go: A Conversation with Kate Wisel
Kate Wisel discusses her debut story collection, DRIVING IN CARS WITH HOMELESS MEN.
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Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me
As long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
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Voices on Addiction: Fault Lines
After, they said I was like a saint. Death changes people’s memory.
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ENOUGH: When Water Can’t Put It Out
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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If Love Were Water
Can I be blamed for my relief? My anger?
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Not a Blueprint: Casey Gerald’s There Will Be No Miracles Here
[T]his book is Gerald’s attempt to construct his own narrative as best as he can, and it’s successful.
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Voices on Addiction: War Hero
A seagull plummeted into the wounded water.
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Voices on Addiction: Flight Patterns
There was no map, no compass. Just me, the needle, and heroin.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Love Is That?
Nothing in Texas came easy.
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Follow Your Nose: A Conversation with Daniel Gumbiner
Daniel Gumbiner discusses his debut novel, THE BOATBUILDER.
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Coming Clean
Intellectually, I know Gracie’s mom loves her and needs help. In practice, I just want my daughter safe.
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The Girl Next Door: Pot Docs and Loss on the California Coast
[A]s with any documentary, every one of our stories eventually becomes a ghost story. On a long enough timeline, that is.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Passing as Privileged”
I don’t feel ashamed of my history, I feel ashamed of letting it be erased.
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Voices on Addiction: Dead Eyes and Bob Barker Crocs
Broken people are drawn to other broken people. Comparing scars. Laying belly to belly. Two similar pieces of different puzzles.
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