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Present a copy of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Whoever puts it in their purse is the woman. Whoever pulls their own copy out of their pocket is Gertrude Stein.
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There’s something about stillness that always comes just before the miracles.
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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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To be imbricated in hundreds of years of colonial violence is to be entangled in colorist logics and stories of loss and belonging that are rarely linear or singular.
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Morbid humor exists for a reason: to poke fun at our inevitable ends and lighten its emotional load.
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A fossil. A body. A message from a recovered life.
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Liz Asch discusses her new book, YOUR SALT ON MY LIPS.
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A Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Reading Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth is like taking an afternoon drive down the I-4 of my memory.
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My dad, a psychiatrist, wants to write a sex book.
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It is an unimaginable gift until you’ve done it, shaving off a self.
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Jenn Shapland discusses her debut book, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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Jenn Shapland discusses MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
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Change happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
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I needed this book. Maybe you will, too.
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Katharine Coldiron discusses her forthcoming novella, CEREMONIALS.
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Shame is the haunting that’s hardest to scrub away.
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Novelist LaShonda Katrice Barnett discusses her debut novel, Jam on the Vine, how becoming a historian taught her about plot, Muslims living in Texas in the 19th century, and the Missouri State Penitentiary, also known as “the bloodiest 47 acres in America.”
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Bobby J. Robby talks about labor issues, gender identity, and the perils of dating other dancers.
...moreThere’s a lot to smile at in The Bigness of the World, Lori Ostlund’s Flannery O’Conner Award-winning collection—but there aren’t a lot of jokes. In fact, over the course of a dozen stories, Ostlund presents all kinds of suffering: death, self-mutilation, jail, child abuse, poverty, and an overabundance of breakups. As the title suggests, Bigness […]
...moreThree generations of women cope with isolation, grief, and sex, in the first novel by the celebrated story writer, Rachel Sherman.
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