The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erin Belieu
Erin Belieu discusses her new collection, COME-HITHER HONEYCOMB.
...more
Posts Tagged: parenting
The Gothic Horror of the Fourth Trimester: Talking with Julia Fine
Julia Fine discusses her new novel, THE UPSTAIRS HOUSE.
...more
To Move Forward but Not Forget: Talking with Chloe Yelena Miller
Chloe Yelena Miller discusses her debut full-length poetry collection, VIABLE.
...more
Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise
For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
...more
Claiming Space to Matter: Talking with Jennifer Berney
Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
...more
Rumpus Original Fiction: The Tangible Darkness
The ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
...more
Haunted by Hoax: Paul Griner’s The Book of Otto and Liam
But Griner is too skilled a realist to allow The Book of Otto and Liam to become a simple revenge story.
...more
The Inescapability of Motherhood: Makenna Goodman’s The Shame
When the novel begins, Alma is in the car, speeding away from her life.
...more
Rumpus Exclusive: “Dear G.B.”
There are many ways to be ripped to shreds.
...more
Rumpus Original Fiction: Black Talk
She wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
...more
The Fine Line Between Nihilism and Hope: Talking with Ahmed Naji
Ahmed Naji discusses his new memoir, ROTTEN EVIDENCE.
...more
Winter Baby
Something new in the dead darkness. Short days and shimmers of light.
...more
Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Alone?
Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
...more
Nightmares Before Christmas
No one is coming to save us but ourselves.
...more
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Molly Spencer
Molly Spencer discusses her new collection, HINGE.
...more
History as a Bridge to Belonging: A Conversation with Caroline Kim
Caroline Kim discusses her debut collection, THE PRINCE OF MOURNFUL THOUGHTS AND OTHER STORIES.
...more
Owning Your Piles: A Conversation with Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith discusses her new book, KEEP MOVING.
...more
A Photographer’s Wife
It’s hard to see what isn’t there.
...more
The Category of Pretend: A Conversation with Makenna Goodman and Brian Gresko
Who am I and where do I go from here?
...more
Survival Soup
You could say that I have trained for this pandemic all my life.
...more
The Privilege of Anxiety: Mark O’Connell’s Notes from an Apocalypse
What does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?
...more
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Alison Stine
Alison Stine discusses her new novel, ROAD OUT OF WINTER.
...more
What Could Be: All Its Charms by Keetje Kuipers
The decision to have a child is fraught at the best of times.
...more
Voices on Addiction: Letting It Suck
The thing we most had in common was that none of us wanted to be there.
...more
Observations of an Inquisitive Mind: Fruit by Bruce Snider
These are not poems of self-pity. Far from it.
...more
Straining Toward “Memory Care”: Victoria Chang’s Obit
For Chang, figurative language proves unsatisfactory when compared to the depth of her grief.
...more
Cultural Attunement and “Otherness”: A Conversation with Aimee Liu
Aimee Liu discusses her new novel, GLORIOUS BOY.
...more
The Mentor Series: Emily J. Smith and Chloe Caldwell
Emily J. Smith interviews her mentor, Chloe Caldwell.
...more