hunger

  • Sunday Rumpus Fiction: One Small Victory

    Sunday Rumpus Fiction: One Small Victory

    Now he started to cry and couldn’t stop the tears. He’d found a way to beat his hunger until the next meal, and he didn’t know when that would be. Hunger, his acts from hunger, made him cry.

  • Multitudes: What Is a Haunting?

    Multitudes: What Is a Haunting?

    What cannot be forgotten/cannot be remembered?

  • Zoë Ruiz in Conversation with Micah Perks

    Don’t miss this interview at The Believer between former Rumpus Managing Editor Zoë Ruiz and contributor Micah Perks on Perks’s new novel, What Becomes Us—a story told from the point of view of twin fetuses inside the main character. Topics discussed include the book’s themes of “nice girls,” hunger, and the desire…

  • The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Laurie Jean Cannady

    The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Laurie Jean Cannady

    The author of the new memoir Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul talks about growing up impoverished, abused, and in love with words.

  • Hunger is the Beginning

    Desire is transformative, and transgressive: whether it’s an unpeeled onion or a noble lover, to want something, especially for women, can never be entirely benign. A common consequence for careless appetite in fairy tales is monstrous birth– a child that…

  • To The Skin

    To The Skin

    “It” is the overlap between homeless and trans. Oh, did you have a body? When you’re trans and homeless, this is really what the “for customers only” restrooms sign say, below their cheerily simplified depictions of “men” and “women”. Did…

  • The Rumpus Review of Hunger

    Being locked in a tiny prison cell for years on end, with nothing but a blanket and piles of your own waste for company, makes a man very attuned to the small details of life.