The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Dr. Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
“The difference with memorializing my story is that I have invited others to live it, for a moment.”
...more“The difference with memorializing my story is that I have invited others to live it, for a moment.”
...moreBhaswati Ghosh discusses her debut novel, VICTORY COLONY, 1950.
...moreFor years, decades even, my father tried to escape meth’s hold.
...moreAnd if you ask of her to come to you, her answer is refusal.
...moreEverything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
...moreÉireann Lorsung discusses her new collection of poetry, THE CENTURY.
...moreRamiza Shamoun Koya discusses her debut novel, THE ROYAL ABDULS.
...moreZaina Arafat discusses her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH.
...moreRoy G. Guzmán discusses their debut collection, CATRACHOS.
...moreBishakh Som discusses her debut graphic story collection, APSARA ENGINE.
...moreC Pam Zhang discusses her debut novel, HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD.
...moreJaquira Díaz discusses her debut memoir, ORDINARY GIRLS.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreThe speaker in Hard Damage, it seems, is writing herself to life.
...moreI nearly got disowned over my decision not to pass on the family name.
...moreNicole Dennis-Benn discusses her second novel, PATSY.
...moreI was a lonely, dreamy, occasionally silly girl.
...more“I was moved to write the unspeakable and unsayable.”
...moreChia-Chia Lin discusses her debut novel, THE UNPASSING.
...moreIrina Reyn discusses her new novel, MOTHER COUNTRY.
...moreSpeaking other languages can save your life. It can give you a new life.
...moreIt’s subtle, the violence of language.
...moreSally Wen Mao discusses her new collection, OCULUS.
...moreJoseph Rios discusses his debut collection, SHADOWBOXING: POEMS AND IMPERSONATIONS.
...moreRajiv Mohabir discusses his second collection, The Cowherd’s Son, his work as a translator, and resisting erasure in a racist America.
...moreThe sounds that she would expect here are entirely absent. There are no cries, no weeping. Just soothing, muffled tones.
...moreIn Thousand Star Hotel, the bilingual writer’s struggle with expressing himself in English becomes a metaphor for the immigrant’s struggle with navigating the host nation’s hostile-yet-lucrative social terrain.
...moreThat a bumbling demagogue would be able to take this institutional racism and weaponize it is, then, not really a surprise. The seeds for this hate were planted a long time ago.
...moreMahtem Shiferraw discusses her debut collection, Fuchsia, how she uses color to understand the world and to communicate, and why her work continually addresses displacement.
...moreIt is true that I’m talking to a photo, but I’m not crazy. Neither am I a durochka. Fools are oblivious, at least those from my childhood fairy tales. I, on the other hand, am perfectly aware of the problem.
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