An Oral History of Myself #15: Neil Elliott
This is probably one of those interviews where I should keep my mouth shut but you're my son.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jenny Lawson
Jenny Lawson talks about her second memoir, Furiously Happy, mental illness, and growing up in small-town Texas.
Two Lobotomies: Uncle Bennie and Rosemary Kennedy
My uncle and Rosemary Kennedy were born within nine years of one another. They both suffered from mental illness.
Little Yellow Footballs
Telling lies is easy. Waiting for those lies to be exposed is much harder.
The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Karrie Higgins
The more narratives that approach reality "differently" get treated as "insane" or "unreal," the less readers are exposed to them, and the more "unreal" or "insane" they seem. It's like a feedback loop.
Wild Things
Statistics make us feel safe, but most of the time, they can’t predict what’s really going to happen in our life. We believe in them anyway, though.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: On Madness and Mad Men
In my eight years as a Mad Men fan, the series has repeatedly prompted me to reflect on parenting.
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.
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…
This Week in Short Fiction
Let’s talk about sentences. Let’s talk about how poets, when they let their lines run long to prose, can make sentences sing. And if we’re going to talk about those…
Creativity and Mental Illness
Though I did not know it then, Adeline was not just a work of fiction, or an act of literary ventriloquism. It was my suicide note. Had I succeeded in…