Turning Purple: The Year of the Defector
I needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.
...moreI needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.
...moreIt took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
...moreSimon(e) van Saarloos discusses PLAYING MONOGAMY.
...moreGarth Greenwell discusses his new book, CLEANNESS.
...moreMiranda Popkey discusses her debut novel, TOPICS OF CONVERSATION.
...moreFollowing Sunday services, everyone had gathered for a potluck meal.
...moreElvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
...moreAre you wealthy? If so, heyyy.
...moreRheea Mukherjee discusses her debut novel, THE BODY MYTH.
...moreRosebud Ben-Oni discusses her new collection, TURN AROUND, BRXGHT XYXS.
...moreI didn’t belong on this planet. This kind of place could not be my home.
...moreSwift’s shuffled lines create haunting, breathtaking possibilities.
...more[I]n Normal People love acts as a school.
...moreAlways I want to be seen. Always to burn.
...moreI think this is what love is, critical and enduring.
...moreIt always feels like I’m making a mistake on purpose.
...moreLane Moore discusses her first book, HOW TO BE ALONE.
...moreWe sleep and we pretend to sleep. We wait for the day to turn into night.
...moreElissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton discusses SHAPES OF NATIVE NONFICTION.
...moreTracy Strauss discusses her debut memoir, I JUST HAVEN’T MET YOU YET.
...moreThe house, for the first time this weekend, is quiet.
...moreThis is how to be sick, or hurt: give up on fast time.
...moreAfter, they said I was like a saint. Death changes people’s memory.
...moreYou are free to love others as if it were a pleasure and a privilege, because that’s exactly what it is.
...moreIf there is distance in this collection, it originates with our own discomfort with its subject matter.
...moreBriallen Hopper discusses her debut collection, HARD TO LOVE: ESSAYS AND CONFESSIONS.
...moreAnd this is all like. The cloud is going around me.
...moreJames Hornor discusses his new novel, VICTORIA FALLS.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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