When Background Becomes Foreground: Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown
Chinatown comes to vivid life in Yu’s hands.
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Posts Tagged: illness
Body Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Beautiful Dead”
It was personal, as the detectives on my favorite shows always said.
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Losing Paradise
What my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.
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It’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life
My defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
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What It Means to Be a Human: Talking with Maggie Downs
Maggie Downs discusses her debut memoir, BRAVER THAN YOU THINK.
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Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal and Excerpt from Home Making
An exclusive cover reveal + excerpt from Lee Matalone’s debut, HOME MAKING.
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Trudging Down Death Road
Reveal yourself. Reveal yourself. You cannot be dead. Reveal yourself.
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Open Letter to Our Body
The only thing I can count on to be there tomorrow is my body. And yours.
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My Burning Tongue
What price have we paid for our silence?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Orientation
The human animal was at war with itself. It was a cosmic joke with no teller.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Eva Hagberg Fisher
Eva Hagberg Fisher discusses her debut memoir, HOW TO BE LOVED.
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Death, Doorways, and Dance
Acceptance is a fluid dance
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Less-Than-Linear: A Conversation with Georgia Webber
Georgia Webber discusses DUMB: LIVING WITHOUT A VOICE in an illustrated interview!
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Reclamation, Reassembly, and Recognition: Jasminne Méndez’s Night-Blooming Jasmin(n)e
What happens when the source of grief comes from within?
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Writing When Your Life Depends on It
Do I want to live, or do I want to write? Sometimes I think it’s that simple.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Basement
Looking back, it feels like I knew.
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Hard to Swallow: Allie Rowbottom’s Jell-O Girls
Jell-O, that seemingly innocuous, gem-colored dessert, has a darker history than one might expect.
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A Séance of a Book: Talking with Allie Rowbottom
Allie Rowbottom discusses her debut memoir, JELL-O GIRLS.
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Struggling toward Truth: Porochista Khakpour’s Sick
Khakpour gathers courage, again and again, as she reaches into the most painful parts of her life, excavates them, and holds them up to the light.
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Being Human: A Conversation with Porochista Khakpour
Porochista Khakpour discusses her new memoir, Sick, the difficulty of receiving good medical care, and the blessing of online community.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: She Hated the Child
She didn’t want anything to change. She understood it would be easier if she loved the child. But she did not want to love it.
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Inheritance
I married a man who is related to me. I started dating him when I was seventeen and of course, my mother immediately liked him. He grew up in my parents’ hometown.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Tessa Fontaine’s The Electric Woman
Sometimes a story suddenly changes.
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Breaking the Rules: A Conversation with Amy B. Scher
Amy B. Scher discusses her memoir, This Is How I Save My Life, what to do when all available treatments have failed, Trump’s presidency, and the power to heal.
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Translating the Untranslatable: A Conversation with Andrea J. Buchanan
Andrea J. Buchanan discuss The Beginning of Everything and processing trauma through narrative.
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What Did You Expect, Though?
The immune system, meant to protect a body from foreign invaders, works too assiduously, sees danger where there is none, turns on itself. Such conditions lend themselves to metaphor.
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