The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lauren J. Sharkey
Lauren J. Sharkey discusses her debut novel, INCONVENIENT DAUGHTER.
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Posts Tagged: mothers and daughters
Mothers and Daughters: Girl by Veronica Golos
Bodies become something to escape from or leave behind.
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Let Our Rage Become a Storm: Kelly Grace Thomas’s Boat Burned
In this collection, women are “vesseled,” carrying the burdens of our culture.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Mira Returns to Athens”
How had he seen me upon this initial meeting? How had I seen him?
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Happens to Girls
There is pleasure in his eyes that is not just good acting.
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Body Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Losing the World
When we begin life, language is play.
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An Exploration of Belonging: Talking with Donna Hemans
Donna Hemans discusses her new novel, TEA BY THE SEA.
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Larger Than Life: Talking with Alia Volz
Alia Volz discusses her debut memoir, HOME BAKED.
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Variants of Unknown Significance
My gynecologist won’t stop bothering me about getting a genetic test done.
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Bodies Are Not Metaphors: Talking with Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett discusses her second novel, THE VANISHING HALF.
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Radical Enough
I still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.>
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Wild Animals
I searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
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Moments of Reawakening: Talking with Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong discusses MINOR FEELINGS: AN ASIAN AMERICAN RECKONING.
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Pursuing the Unattainable: A Conversation with Zaina Arafat
Zaina Arafat discusses her debut novel, YOU EXIST TOO MUCH.
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What It Means to Be a Human: Talking with Maggie Downs
Maggie Downs discusses her debut memoir, BRAVER THAN YOU THINK.
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Interrogating Grief: A Converstion with Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #213: Elizabeth Kadetsky
“I like to engage with and argue with the research; this makes the work dynamic.”
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Voices on Addiction: Katie Calls
I want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
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ENOUGH: The Most Important Thing a Woman Could Be
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Clockwork
Turn the corner, let the darkness swallow you, and you’re in the stacks.
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Seaweed Soup (Miyuk Gook
미역국)
This is my mother’s soup. This is what I aim for.
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Alive and Slippery: Talking with Megan Giddings
Megan Giddings discusses her debut novel, LAKEWOOD.
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Teddy Ruxpin
There’s a collective guilt. So, our parents buy us friends.
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Time Is Money: Porn Carnival by Rachel Rabbit White
This isn’t a book about loss; rather, it’s a book about sheer willpower and intentionality.
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A Space for Magnanimity: Talking with E. J. Koh
E. J. Koh discusses her debut memoir, THE MAGICAL LANGUAGE OF OTHERS.
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Voices on Addiction: We Love Our Sons, We Raise Our Daughters
Drunk women are targets. Drunk men can be anything.
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ENOUGH: The Innocence of a Skirt Too Far Above the Knees
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Fraught Woods: Chelsea Rathburn’s Still Life with Mother and Knife
These are the woods through which we walk from an early age.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Witch House
What was I now? A witness? A victim? A mother? A suspect?
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