This Is Not a Metaphor
On the far side of silence, I suspect, is joy.
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...moreThe contempt the place exuded for the people inside it felt physical, hanging in the air like humidity.
...moreCeleste Mohammed discusses her debut novel-in-stories, PLEASANTVIEW.
...morePoet brian g. gilmore discusses his newest collection, COME SEE ABOUT ME, MARVIN.
...moreThe system does not protect or serve those we call “aliens.”
...more“All in all, it took six years—one year of preparing and marinating, two years of drafting, then three years of revising!”
...moreWendy Willis discusses her new essay collection, THESE ARE STRANGE TIMES, MY DEAR.
...moreRenee Simms discusses her debut collection, Meet Behind Mars, leaving law to become a writer, and writing through major life changes.
...moreCarrie La Seur discusses her new novel, The Weight of an Infinite Sky, standing up for what you know is right, and the writers who inspire her.
...moreDaniel Olivas discusses his recent short story collection, The King of Lighting Fixtures, writing humor, and the role of religion in his work.
...moreOne story mirrors our identity—any of us could be falsely accused! The other tale is about the Other—because it’s unfathomable that one of us would commit murder. We aren’t killers; they are.
...moreDesiree Cooper discusses her debut collection of flash fiction, Know the Mother, what mother-writers need, and why motherhood is the only story she’s ever told.
...moreMothers and daughters have a language of their own.
...moreThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Reginald Dwayne Betts about his new book Bastards of the Reagan Era.
...moreThe first thing my parents bought when they earned money in America was a giant bag of almonds as a talisman for success.
...moreM.E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, discusses writing a memoir, being a lawyer and a Mormon, the unreliability of memory—and, of course, being a high-functioning sociopath.
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