Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Liz Prato
Liz Prato talks about her debut story collection, Baby's on Fire, why she enjoys the process of revision, and what the phrase "literary citizenship" means to her.
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Growing Up Hemingway
I was trained in basic cocktails by the time I was 6. In two new books, Mariel Hemingway shares her experiences of growing up in a family plagued by mental…
Growing Up: The Rumpus Interview with Michelle Tea
Michelle Tea discusses life in recovery, the meaning of family, motherhood, and her new memoir How to Grow Up.
Words for Words Without Music
Philip Glass has written a memoir. Philip Glass has written a memoir. The composer Philip Glass has written a memoir. Philip Glass has written a memoir. It begins in Baltimore.…
Honesty, Truth, and the Facts
At Vulture, Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott writes about seeing “himself” on screen in the film adaptation of The Adderall Diaries.
The Ickiness of Memoir
…the fact that sincere care is prerequisite illustrates a truth of memoir: some of the things about memoir that appeal to readers, and are inherent to the form, can seem…
Family Secrets
Memoirist, cartoonist, and creator of the famous Bechdel Test, Alison Bechdel talks to The Millions about the evolution of her art, winning a MacArthur “Genuis Grant,” and searching for answers…
A Life in Books
Often I wouldn’t be able to keep up, like with Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, but it made it feel like a whole new world of books had been opened up to…
The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Manguso
Poet Sarah Manguso discusses her new memoir, Ongoingness, graphomania, and how motherhood does (or doesn't) change being a writer.
How a Writer Became a Carpenter
After producing a “listicle” of the “World’s 100 Unsexiest Men,” Nina McLaughlin decided her writing career hadn’t turned out how she had hoped. So she became a carpenter. NPR has…
An “I” for an “I”
For a growing number of essayists, memoirists, and other wielders of the unwieldy “I,” confessional has become an unwelcome label—an implicit accusation of excessive self-absorption, of writing not just about…
Grief Shatters Narratives
At Salon, Helen Macdonald talks about the unexpected success of her new memoir H is for Hawk, writing through grief, and her book’s unconventional mix of memoir, nature writing, and…