How We Create Ourselves: Second Place by Rachel Cusk
The voice reaches and reaches at answers to broad questions. Sometimes it pulls back pieces of insight and beauty.
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...moreA Rumpus series of work by women, trans, and nonbinary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreApples do not grow “true to seed,” meaning that what you put in the ground isn’t always what comes back out of it.
...moreJoy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
...moreThe contempt the place exuded for the people inside it felt physical, hanging in the air like humidity.
...moreKrys Malcolm Belc discusses his debut memoir, THE NATURAL MOTHER OF THE CHILD.
...moreA word becomes a reckoning, a reconciling of contradiction.
...moreI hope, by writing this, language can jar a wound.
...moreFor what, after all, is more monstrous than a woman who wants?
...moreMelissa Scholes Young discusses her new novel, THE HIVE.
...moreSuzanne Koven discusses her new memoir, LETTER TO A YOUNG FEMALE PHYSICIAN.
...moreMegan Culhane Galbraith discusses her debut book, THE GUILD OF THE INFANT SAVIOUR.
...moreReading Kristen Arnett’s With Teeth is like taking an afternoon drive down the I-4 of my memory.
...moreEthel Rohan discusses her new story collection, IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.
...moreRonit Plank discusses her new memoir, WHEN SHE COMES BACK.
...moreIt hadn’t felt like teasing. It felt the way it always did these days—that I had disappointed her.
...moreGina Frangello discusses her debut memoir, BLOW YOUR HOUSE DOWN.
...moreSonora Jha discusses her new book, HOW TO RAISE A FEMINIST SON.
...moreKaitlyn Greenidge discusses her new novel, LIBERTIE.
...moreThe body, like a country, holds so much, and all at once.
...moreAs soon as life begins, its impulse is to divide.
...moreMaybe this pandemic will make us a family.
...moreShin Yu Pai discusses her new book, ENSŌ.
...moreErin Belieu discusses her new collection, COME-HITHER HONEYCOMB.
...moreJulia Fine discusses her new novel, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE.
...moreChloe Yelena Miller discusses her debut full-length poetry collection, VIABLE.
...moreFor me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
...moreTo learn is perhaps Voisine’s primary goal in writing the poems in The Bower.
...moreDantiel W. Moniz discusses her debut story collection, MILK BLOOD HEAT.
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