Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”
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...moreIt comes down to this: I feel the need to prove I belong here.
...more“You can make any topic enough in the telling.”
...moreIt’s good to know I’ll always be prepared for what’s out there.
...moreVanessa Hua discusses her debut collection, Deceit and Other Possibilities, writing fiction in order to understand life as an American-born child of immigrants, and the importance of literary community.
...more“But what are the statistics? Aren’t you taking a similar risk just driving?” Wide-eyed, attentive, he leans forward slightly.
...more“This must be where we meander,” I said with relief. “How far do you think we’ve come?”
...moreHiking for me is meditation if I approach it mindfully. When (my brother) Jim Breithaupt hiked the Huachuca Passage in the Arizona desert with family, he encountered some mishaps along the way. Nothing major—just getting lost and running into smugglers. Read more at Cargo Literary.
...moreIt’s true that real estate can’t save a marriage. But it might be equally true that it can save a relationship.
...moreHe staggers; he loses his standoff with gravity. It was never a fair fight.
...moreLast month a bear ripped into my tent, clenched his teeth onto my upper left arm, just below my shoulder, and would not let go.
...moreAs the morning progresses I become less interested in where Zirrer had lived, and more interested in what brought him here to begin with. Why, I wonder, does a man choose to opt out of the world?
...moreReading Solo Faces, I felt like I was peering into a life Matt and I once longed for, one I never entered completely.
...moreAuthor Kara Richardson Whitely discusses her new memoir, Gorge: My Journey Up Kilimanjaro at 300 Pounds, surviving food addiction and the trauma of being molested, and what comes next.
...moreMallory McDuff uses the structure of an A-Z primer to explore the legacy left behind by her parents and her childhood in the Episcopal church.
...moreRumpus contributor Micah Perks has a new eBook out on Shebooks called, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, my daughter and me. Micah Perks’ candid short memoir takes an insightful look at women and the wild, the wildness she experienced as a child on a commune in the Adirondack wilderness, the ways women and wildness […]
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