Being Seen: A Conversation with Lane Moore
Lane Moore discusses her first book, HOW TO BE ALONE.
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Join NOW!Lane Moore discusses her first book, HOW TO BE ALONE.
...more“It’s cruel to not say, I see you. I know you exist.”
...moreTracy Strauss discusses her debut memoir, I JUST HAVEN’T MET YOU YET.
...moreI was a lonely, dreamy, occasionally silly girl.
...moreAfter, they said I was like a saint. Death changes people’s memory.
...moreSaturday is a desert in a motel.
...moreWhy was he so broken? And why did his broken make me feel broken, too?
...moreSavannah Sipple discusses her debut collection, WWJD AND OTHER POEMS.
...moreShe told herself it was a new beginning. Nothing would be taken for granted again.
...moreOne moment white, the next Latina, the next neither.
...moreThat’s how I felt again, then: a child suddenly fallen, helpless. Unable even to breathe.
...moreIt’s subtle, the violence of language.
...moreIf my body is a bill to pay, my voice will be singing the receipts.
...moreSohaila Abdulali discusses her new book, WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT RAPE.
...moreTheresa Griffin Kennedy discusses her new story collection, BURNSIDE FIELD LIZARD.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreThin bodies, thick bodies, fit bodies, round bodies. I’d never seen so much flesh.
...moreSo I said nothing. To protect you, and to protect myself.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreMelanie Abrams discusses her debut novel, PLAYING, and a forthcoming novel, MEADOWLARK.
...moreWhen she called out for floor performance I knew this would not be my day.
...moreA Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
...moreQueer literature isn’t a box to unlock so that it can unlock me.
...moreNow my not wanting men to be front and center in my life capitalized sperm into a rare commodity. Empowered reproduction is largely a myth.
...moreI remember hunger the way other children remember love.
...moreA writer must push her pleasure into risk, expose herself publicly to strangers with no knowledge of how she might be received, and become something that must be seen.
...moreWhen I came home from war, I felt relief. Now that I’m home after childbirth, I’m still waiting for relief. War ends. Motherhood does not.
...moreTo be named, and yet not named. Something broke in me when I read his synopsis of us, as if I had been summarily dismissed after twenty long years.
...moreTerese Marie Mailhot discusses her debut memoir, Heart Berries, crafting trauma on the page, and her views on motherhood after writing her memoir.
...moreI married a man who is related to me. I started dating him when I was seventeen and of course, my mother immediately liked him. He grew up in my parents’ hometown.
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