Mother’s Day
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Missing
I long to learn from my darkest teachers, feel the stab of their spectacular rejection. Perhaps I feel most alive when I’m hurting.
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Bringing Up Baby
Shirley Jackson’s bone-chilling story “The Lottery” is probably the last thing anyone wants to associate with Mother’s Day, yet her lurking plot twists and sharp character insights are the perfect tools to write about parenting. In this month’s Slate Book…
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Broke and Broken
Saeed Jones published a book of poems, Prelude To Bruise. Over at Buzzfeed, he’ll tell you why he wrote them, too: “My mother had a fatal heart attack the night before Mother’s Day in 2011. The experience of losing her…
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Nick Cave Monday #35: “The Lyre of Orpheus”
Happy Mother’s Day. And a big hug to Dawn Cave, the mother who gave us the King of The Bad Seeds. Thank you, Dawn, and thank you, Calliope. Calli-a-who? Calliope was the mother of the greatest musician of all time,…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
We hope you were so busy taking your mamas out to brunch and showering them with love and appreciation that you simply had no time for The Rumpus this weekend. We celebrated Mother’s Day with two very different interviews that…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Emily Rapp
A day of celebration for many, Mother’s Day is a more complex holiday for people who have lost their mothers–or their children.
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Mother’s Day
“Back when my son was three I took him to Downtown Brooklyn. He pointed to a sign, and said ‘The – King’s – Store.’ I had no idea he could read.” Artists Jon Cotner and Claire Hamilton spoke with moms…
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“Infinite Ache”
At Ebony, Saeed Jones reflects on the vastness of grief as the one-year anniversary of his mother’s death approaches. “Now, though I sometimes cry, I more often feel a sense of awe at the depth of my connection to my…