journaling
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Nefertiti Asanti
“…each month I embrace a kind of death within my womb that offers me a life I can live with.”
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Writing to Heal: Talking with Emilly Prado
Emilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
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Voices On Addiction: A Conversation with James Brown and Patrick O’Neil
James Brown and Patrick O’Neil discuss WRITING YOUR WAY TO RECOVERY.
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Letting Go of What We Love: Talking with Rachel Heng
Rachel Heng discusses her debut novel, Suicide Club, the book’s genesis, her writing and reading life, and her thoughts on “wellness.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #133: Jake Shears
“I wrote this book. I worked really, really hard on it, and I was a little scared by it.”
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Album of the Week: Historian by Lucy Dacus
“Someone’s profession. Feels like my name more than a musician.”
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You Can’t Be a Snob with Bad Teeth: Talking with David Sedaris
David Sedaris discusses his new collection of diary entries, Theft By Finding, his love for book signings, and his inevitable return to IHOP.
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A Very Great Scoundrel: The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Volume III: Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks
In hindsight, it’s sometimes difficult not to read more than a bit of sadomasochism into Hopkins’s inner passions and the ways in which he resisted them.
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The Rumpus Interview with Stacy Szymaszek
Poet Stacy Szymaszek discusses her most recent collection, Journal of Ugly Sites & Other Journals, the “notebook genre,” and claiming a city—ugly sites and all.
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The Rumpus Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang
Esmé Weijun Wang discusses her first novel, The Border of Paradise, about a multi-generational new American family, creative expression through writing and photography, and interracial relationships.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Lucy Dacus’s Journals
What I write in my journals is a personal record of the events in my life, and my reactions to them.
