Wow, Mom!: Mom Genes by Abigail Tucker
The best books I have read about motherhood have not reassured me that these feelings will resolve.
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Posts Tagged: Rachel Cusk
On Trauma, Memory, and Language: Talking with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses her new novel, SAVAGE TONGUES.
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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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A Psychogeographical Bildungsroman: Talking with Jo Hamya
Jo Hamya discusses her debut novel, THREE ROOMS.
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Notable Online: 6/27–7/3
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Everything Is Malleable: Talking with Lauren Oyler
Lauren Oyler discusses her debut novel, FAKE ACCOUNTS.
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Collisions and Dissonance: Talking with Lynn Steger Strong
Lynn Steger Strong discusses her new novel, WANT.
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What to Read When You’re Motherless and Mothering
Chelsea Bieker shares a reading list to celebrate GODSHOT.
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Stories We Tell Ourselves: A Conversation with Miranda Popkey
Miranda Popkey discusses her debut novel, TOPICS OF CONVERSATION.
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What to Read When You Are Ready to Be Done Crying
Heather Christle shares a reading list to celebrate THE CRYING BOOK.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Michele Filgate
Michele Filgate discusses WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT.
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Notable NYC: 5/18–5/24
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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What to Read When You Want to Rethink Motherhood
Rumpus editors share a Mother’s Day reading list to challenge traditional views of motherhood!
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Notable San Francisco: 4/3–4/9
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #159: John Wray
“I think the material itself should be calling the shots.”
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Notable NYC: 6/16–6/22
Literary events in and around New York City this week!
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Melissa Broder
Melissa Broder discusses her debut novel, The Pisces (Hogarth, May 2018), the importance of love between women, and mermaid sex.
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It’s Just Reality: Talking with Meaghan O’Connell
Meaghan O’Connell discusses her new memoir, And Now We Have Everything, perfectionism in motherhood and writing, and being pregnant again.
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What to Read When You Want to Write Like a Mother
A list of books that wrangle, directly or indirectly, with motherhood and all that comes with it (or its absence).
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The Inner and Outer Self: A Conversation with Sylvia Brownrigg
Sylvia Brownrigg discusses Pages For Her and returning to its world of characters, the inner voices she heeds and those she silences, and who she imagines her readers to be.
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What to Read When You Don’t Want Summer to End
A list of books that take place in the summer, remind us of summer, and/or just make for great beach reads.
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Saying What Shouldn’t Be Said: A Conversation with Julie Buntin
Julie Buntin discusses her debut novel, Marlena, why writing about teenage girls is the most serious thing in the world, and finding truths in fiction.
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Transit by Rachel Cusk
Ariel Djanikian reviews Transit by Rachel Cusk today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jon Raymond
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jon Raymond about his new novel Freebird, intergenerational trauma, and the unshakeable love of family.
...moreNotable San Francisco: 1/25–1/31
Wednesday 1/25: Perfectly Queer presents Funny Bits: Humorous Stories from East Bay Queer Writers featuring Ajuan Mance, Willy Wilkinson, and Anna Pulley. Free, 7 p.m., The Octopus Literary Salon. John Else (True South: Henry Hampton and “Eyes on the Prize,” the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement) in conversation with Spencer Nakasako […]
...moreThis Week in Short Fiction
This week, VICE’s 2016 Fiction Issue is out, with work from exciting voices like Ottessa Moshfegh, Rachel Cusk, Roxane Gay, and more. This year’s fiction issue, like the magazine itself, is an engaging, diverse, and sometimes in-your-face read with topics ranging from smart cars to campus rape, love triangles to the meaning of life. One […]
...morePregnant Words
In the New York Times, Rachel Cusk takes on two new memoirs about infertility and the quest for motherhood to explore the wholly compelling “half-analogy between the writing student and the woman embarking on in vitro fertilization.” Julia Leigh’s Avalanche relates six years of the author’s trying and ultimately failing to get pregnant; Belle Boggs, in The Art of Waiting, […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Christine Sneed
Floyd Skloot interviews Christine Sneed about her latest story collection, The Virginity of Famous Men.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell talks about her new novella Women, gender nectar, break-up grief, and her impatience with analyzing the fiction/nonfiction divide.
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What to do with the interesting or vexing stories from our lives, the people who fascinate us, the situations that obsesses us? Do we spin them into fictions or try to capture them in nonfiction, in memoirs, essays, or—in what seems to be a trend—some hybrid form? “Autobiography is increasingly the only form in all […]
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