From the Archive: The Saturday Rumpus Essay: I Left My Heart in Taos
You might gasp. You might gasp and your heart slips out. You whisper and let red willows drift toward the river.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Self-Possession
The words blur, become meaningless. You need them to be meaningless.
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On Ghosting
To ghost, to refuse, to satisfy yourself with yourself, felt impossibly newfangled, like something I’d like to try.
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The Resumes of Identity We Present to Strangers: A Conversation with Dolly Alderton
Dolly Alderton discusses her new novel, GHOSTS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Elizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
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Panic Mode: The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld
Cyclical patterns of journalism notwithstanding, Gladstone sees this moment as uniquely concerning.
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The Dangerous Myth of the “Perfect Victim”: A Conversation with Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Jonathan Parks-Ramage discusses his debut novel, YES, DADDY.
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Electric Synthesis: Drakkar Noir by Michael Chang
Chang’s style imitates internet culture and the patterns of an anxious mind. But there’s also glamour.
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The Space Between Vertebrae
My hands grow cold and rigid. In those blue-tinged palms, I can see my future.
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Digital Space Is Real Space: Talking with A.E. Osworth
A.E. Osworth discusses their debut novel, WE ARE WATCHING ELIZA BRIGHT.
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Nowhere to Go but Deeper into the Self: Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts
Who said great literature has to make the reader feel good?
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Agency Over Anything Else: Talking with Elle Nash
Elle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
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Everything Is Malleable: Talking with Lauren Oyler
Lauren Oyler discusses her debut novel, FAKE ACCOUNTS.
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Nodding to the Unknowable: A Conversation with Theodore Wheeler
Theodore Wheeler discusses his new novel, IN OUR OTHER LIVES.
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Comb or Brush? An Immigrant’s Knotty Dilemma
I was curious. What was the origin of the comb versus brush divide?
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Rites of Passage: Steven Toussaint’s Lay Studies
We are liturgical animals, Toussaint’s poems suggest, designed to satisfy some ultimate desire with worship.
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Peering in at Life: A Conversation with Mary South
Mary South discusses her debut story collection, YOU WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Tracy O’Neill
Tracy O’Neill discusses her new novel QUOTIENTS.
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Opening New Doors and Windows: Talking with Daniel Chacón
Daniel Chacón discusses his new collection, KAFKA IN A SKIRT: STORIES FROM THE WALL®.
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Inevitable Uncertainties: A Conversation with Joyce Hinnefeld
Joyce Hinnefeld discusses her new story collection, THE BEAUTY OF THEIR YOUTH.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #208: Stephen Van Dyck
“This reality is so much dustier, smellier, and bitterer than it seems through a screen.”
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Interestingness Is Always There: Talking with Jenny Odell
Jenny Odell discusses HOW TO DO NOTHING: RESISTING THE ATTENTION ECONOMY.
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The Climate of Feeling: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk
Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
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Scripture and Ebony: A Love Story
At some point, I would have to break my silence.
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The Mania of Queer Desire: In Praise of Fever Ray’s Plunge
I remember driving a bird mad once.
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The Brain Wants What It Wants: Talking with Elisa Gabbert
Elisa Gabbert discusses her newest book, THE WORD PRETTY.
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How I Love Her: On Depression and Suicidal Ideation
Maybe the worst part about living with this is that it doesn’t leave me.
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Both Nostalgia and Dream: Talking with Sadie Dupuis
Sadie Dupuis discusses her debut collection, MOUTHGUARD.
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Curse of Beauty
My daughter is beautiful. I wanted to be beautiful. And isn’t she a reflection of me?
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Country, Black Ass, Queer Perspective: Talking with Michael Arceneaux
Michael Arceneaux discusses his new memoir, I CAN’T DATE JESUS.
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