Voices on Addiction: Chicken Marsala and Meth
As it turned out, though, it was he who would surprise me that evening.
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Posts Tagged: marriage
Voices on Addiction: The Promises
In my secret mind I saw him; I spoke to him every day.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Hunger”
White Castle or McDonald’s? Death always made her hungry.
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Both Aggressor and Victim: Adèle by Leïla Slimani
Who is Adèle Robinson, really, and what is it, exactly, that happened to her?
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More Than Ordinary: If the House by Molly Spencer
Attention—where it is, where it is not—pervades If the House.
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A Box Full of Darkness: Talking with Adrienne Brodeur
Adrienne Brodeur discusses her new memoir, WILD GAME.
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The Myth of the Lazy Mothers
I worried that I no longer knew myself.
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Everyone You Love Is Broke: The Not Wives by Carley Moore
How do you go on when the losses seem unbearable?
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Rumpus Exclusive: Cover Reveal and Excerpt from Home Making
An exclusive cover reveal + excerpt from Lee Matalone’s debut, HOME MAKING.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #192: Lara Vapnyar
“This novel is my most intimate and biographical.”
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Love under Capitalism: Sally Rooney’s Normal People
[I]n Normal People love acts as a school.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Pirate Radio, Like Desire”
Always I want to be seen. Always to burn.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Someone Will Come and Get Us
It always feels like I’m making a mistake on purpose.
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Welcome to South Bend: How to Change Your Name in Indiana
I don’t even know what planet I’m on!
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Gauri Kalyanam
Her heartbeat is a history folded into a vessel.
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Voices on Addiction: How to Stay
Drinking is the opposite of staying.
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I Am the Ignition
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Softest Part
We sleep and we pretend to sleep. We wait for the day to turn into night.
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The Thread: Art Monsters
I don’t want to be a martyr or a monster. I want to be human.
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Pig on a Stick
My Filipino father refused to be upstaged by a white man’s lechon.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Sardines
The house, for the first time this weekend, is quiet.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Amber van de Bunt
Amber van de Bunt discusses her debut memoir, OVERCOME.
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A Cleansing Tornado: Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by Sara Borjas
Undergirding all the truth about pain is the triumph that comes from having a heart like a window and a mouth like a cliff.
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The Mentor Series: Maggie Smith and Kathy Fagan
Poet Maggie Smith interviews her mentor, Kathy Fagan.
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The Supplicant Undertaker
Is it too much to ask: a girl to want her father to keep his feet firmly in the soil of the living?
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Navigating by the Right Stars: A Conversation with Briallen Hopper
Briallen Hopper discusses her debut collection, HARD TO LOVE: ESSAYS AND CONFESSIONS.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: In the Large Room Where Your Future Is Kept
She told herself it was a new beginning. Nothing would be taken for granted again.
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When Our Inner Voices Speak: Reema Zaman’s I Am Yours
Reema’s book teems with gorgeous metaphors.
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