The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Christine No
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...moreWilla C. Richards discusses her debut novel, THE COMFORT OF MONSTERS.
...moreThe brutality of frat culture, Nugent suggests, is a veneer that hardly masks its devotees’ miseries and insecurities.
...moreRohan is masterful at mining these triads for their palpable uneasiness and unavoidable suffering.
...moreSycamore wrote this book long before pandemic time, and yet it couldn’t have arrived at a better moment.
...moreCortney Lamar Charleston discusses his new poetry collection, DOPPELGANGBANGER.
...moreC. Kubasta discusses her new collection, ABJECTIFICATION: STORIES & TRUTHS.
...moreTrauma’s wing conceals and reveals.
...moreMolly McCully Brown and Susannah Nevison discuss their work.
...moreTracy O’Neill discusses her new novel QUOTIENTS.
...moreNatalia Hero discusses her debut novella, HUM.
...moreI wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
...moreThen a light turns on and a panic sets in, like noise: unassailable, unnameable.
...moreSimon(e) van Saarloos discusses PLAYING MONOGAMY.
...more“Working with words is a quest, not blind, but in the darkness.”
...moreI worried that I no longer knew myself.
...moreI think this is what love is, critical and enduring.
...more“Understanding that you can have what you desire can be healing and transformative.”
...moreThe narration isn’t dispassionate, but there’s a distance.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreMelissa Broder discusses her debut novel, The Pisces (Hogarth, May 2018), the importance of love between women, and mermaid sex.
...moreKristen Arnett discusses her debut collection, Felt in the Jaw, how place informs writing, and deciding to hold her book release party at a local 7-Eleven.
...more“[T]here was something really empowering about being honest and open about this part of myself. Somehow, writing helped lessen the shame.”
...moreI applied for a job at Hooters on a dare a few weeks before my nineteenth birthday. A shoe salesman who worked across from me at the mall told me he’d pay me twenty dollars to apply.
...moreTouch is a compelling argument that we should embrace the physical world, genuine human connections, and reject the technology that comes between us and other people.
...moreChasing intimacy can feel cheap—and yet intimacy we pay for can be meaningful. I find traditional therapy as awkward as sex, exposing my emotional self like I expose my body.
...more“This must be where we meander,” I said with relief. “How far do you think we’ve come?”
...moreIf you’re not yet aware of the online magazine Storychord, take this chance to get acquainted. Each issue features a short story, a piece of visual art, and a musical composition, which combine to make a sort of multimedia storytelling triptych and a unique reading experience. In this week’s selection, Laura Bernard’s illustration of a […]
...moreBruce Bauman discusses his latest book, Broken Sleep, why rock isn’t dead (yet), how humor makes life bearable, and why we should reinstate the draft.
...moreGarth Greenwell discusses his debut novel, What Belongs to You, crossing boundaries, language as defense, and the queer tradition of novel writing that blurs boundaries between fiction and essay and autobiography.
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