The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses her new book, THE FREEZER DOOR.
...moreMattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses her new book, THE FREEZER DOOR.
...more“I don’t think I know how to write if I’m not guided by sound—that’s when it feels like I’m flailing or straining.”
...moreHeather Christle discusses her debut work of nonfiction, THE CRYING BOOK.
...moreTrisha Low discusses her new book-length essay, SOCIALIST REALISM.
...moreErica Trabold discusses her debut essay collection, FIVE PLOTS.
...morePerched on the shoulders of generational trauma sit these two theses: suffering begets cruelty begets suffering begets cruelty, and pain is empathy’s catalyst.
...moreA first day means there was a never-day.
...moreAuthor Brenda Miller discusses the lyric essay, her “poet self” who always bleeds through, and what she’s writing about next.
...moreJohn D’Agata, visionary champion of the essay and master anthologizer, sees the lyric form “partake of the poem in its density and shapeliness, it’s distillation of ideas and musicality of language.” He also sees it as unbound to conventional notions of truth. Writing for Harper’s, Elaine Blair critiques the genre-bending, exploratory practices of writers like David Shields, […]
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