From the Archive: The Rumpus Interview with Lacy M. Johnson
The Other Side author Lacy M. Johnson talks about the experience of being kidnapped, overcoming trauma, and fighting the George Wills of the world.
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Posts Tagged: kidnapping
An Exploration of Belonging: Talking with Donna Hemans
Donna Hemans discusses her new novel, TEA BY THE SEA.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Witch House
What was I now? A witness? A victim? A mother? A suspect?
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The Thread: Near Miss
I’ve seen them in the post office, or stapled to utility poles, fluttering in the evening breeze.
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TORCH: The Reunion
He was and still is a stranger, uninhabitable and distant like a whisper in a language I don’t quite understand.
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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Matthew Gallaway’s #gods
Matthew Gallaway’s new novel, #gods, is out this month from Fiction Advocate.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Bellevonia Beautee
I try to see it, to see forever. The backs of my eyes are hot and ache with the trying.
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Majik Market
The summer and early fall of 1974 replays like a gritty movie in my head, a 70s era Lumet or Scorsese, elements of cinema verite, but stylized, heightened.
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The Rumpus Interview with Susan Minot
The Rumpus talks with Susan Minot about MFA programs, Joseph Kony, and throwing out big chunks of text.
...moreProfiling Roxane Gay
Tim Obaro profiles Rumpus Essays Editor Roxane Gay and looks at her debut novel, An Untamed State, for Chicago Magazine. The novel follows a middle-class newlywed kidnapped while on vacation in Haiti. Obaro writes: Born in Omaha, Gay conceived the idea for the novel after hearing her Haitian parents talk of acquaintances with family members who […]
...moreReagan’s “Welfare Queen” Was Real and Terrifying
Ronald Reagan’s anecdotal speech about a “welfare queen” who bilked taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars has largely been discredited as racist demagoguery, but it turns out that particular woman did exist—and welfare fraud was the least of her offenses. Read Josh Levin’s longform account of the life and crimes of Linda Taylor, […]
...moreThe Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Happy Sunday! I’m in upstate New York at my sister’s college graduation. She’s really smart, like Phi Beta Kappa smart. However, she’s insisting that I play drinking games with her, which I haven’t done for like ten years, so posts might be light today. You can blame her. “Baby’s Touch-n-Feel Guide to Russian Literature” (via […]
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