Slow Burn: A Conversation with Katie Jean Shinkle
Katie Jean Shinkle discusses her new novel, RUINATION.
...moreKatie Jean Shinkle discusses her new novel, RUINATION.
...more“Remember Sinead?” I asked. My mom nodded her head and shrugged.
...moreAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich discusses The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, the importance of narrative structure, and the difference between facts and stories.
...moreRene Denfeld discusses her latest book, The Child Finder, the ways in which trauma traps us, and the important role of imagination in finding resilience and escape.
...moreCritics have noted how The Keepers is similar to other prestige documentaries but with a significant difference—its focus on the victims and their stories.
...moreThe Rumpus Book Club chats with Zoe Zolbrod about her new book The Telling, pushing against victim narratives, how the conversation surrounding sexual abuse has evolved, and the melding of research with memoir.
...moreAlicia Swiz reviews Gotta Go Gotta Flow by Patricia Smith and Michael Abramson.
...moreMot was living my own fear… I wanted to learn from him how I might survive, if I too ended up without a home, without the resources to live what I thought of as a minimally decent life.
...moreWrite a character who can walk home alone at night while feeling unafraid.
...moreGrowing up in a slew of Evangelical churches, I saw this system of governance deployed to handle anything from adultery to domestic violence to pedophilia. And in each instance, this system has failed to stop abusers or protect victims. At Buzzfeed, Rumpus contributor Lyz Lenz writes about her experience in Evangelical churches and how these […]
...moreWendy C. Ortiz talks about her memoir, Excavation, about her teenage affair with her teacher, and how the moment you write down a memory you make it fallible.
...more“It seemed, some days, that life was nothing more than a tally of the people who’d left us behind.”
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