The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Alexis Ivy
“Writing in this way allows me to put order in this disordered world.”
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Posts Tagged: recovery
Voices On Addiction: A Conversation with James Brown and Patrick O’Neil
James Brown and Patrick O’Neil discuss WRITING YOUR WAY TO RECOVERY.
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Both of These Things Are True: Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger
The frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.
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Voices on Addiction: Searching for Lilacs
It hadn’t felt like teasing. It felt the way it always did these days—that I had disappointed her.
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On Relic and Recovery: A Conversation with Kimiko Hahn
Poet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
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Voices on Addiction: There Were Also Girls, Women
I always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.
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Through a Prism: A Conversation with Sarah Kasbeer
Sarah Kasbeer discusses her debut essay collection, A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN.
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Voices on Addiction: Fallen
There is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
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No Story Ever Really Ends: Talking with Amy Long
Amy Long discusses her debut book, CODEPENDENCE.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erica C. Barnett
Erica C. Barnett discusses her debut memoir, QUITTER.
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Voices on Addiction: Letting It Suck
The thing we most had in common was that none of us wanted to be there.
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In Protest of a Body that Refuses to End
All I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.
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Body Inheritance
I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn
Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn discusses her debut essay collection, A FISH GROWING LUNGS.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Erin Khar
Erin Khar discusses her debut memoir, STRUNG OUT.
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What Toulouse-Lautrec Taught Me about Intimacy
I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
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Voices on Addiction: The Opposite of Hallelujah
When I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
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Voices on Addiction: Jack and the Boss
My sobriety is still a mystery to me. Forty years this December.
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Voices on Addiction: Jokerman
My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
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Voices on Addiction: The Promises
In my secret mind I saw him; I spoke to him every day.
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A Modern-Day Witch: Talking Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroughs discusses his new memoir, TOIL & TROUBLE.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Emily Arnason Casey
Emily Arnason Casey discusses her debut essay collection, MADE HOLY.
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Voices on Addiction: How to Stay
Drinking is the opposite of staying.
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Magic Numbers: A Story of Wanting in Pairs
Find and replace. Food for alcohol. Daughter for dad.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Amber van de Bunt
Amber van de Bunt discusses her debut memoir, OVERCOME.
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A Slant Wholeness: Talking with Barrie Jean Borich
Barrie Jean Borrich discusses her work, including her most recent collection APOCALYPSE, DARLING.
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Not All of Us Are on Vacation: Talking with Jason Allen
Jason Allen discusses his debut novel, THE EAST END.
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Wanted/Need/Loved: Moby’s 30 Rock
It really was art imitating life imitating art imitating life.
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ENOUGH: When Water Can’t Put It Out
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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