Coat Full of Pockets: A Story Collection Roundtable
With Dantiel W. Moniz, Kimberly King Parsons, Mary South, Xuan Juliana Wang, and Ashley Wurzbacher.
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Posts Tagged: short fiction
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Meg Pokrass
“The book is about the complicated problem of loving.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Purity Party
I used to be able to teach sex without thinking about sex.
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Unsettled Memories: First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
Author and narrator, fiction and memory, never settle comfortably into their proper places.
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On Monsters and Mythology: A Conversation with Alex DiFrancesco
Alex DiFrancesco discusses their new story collection, TRANSMUTATION.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sayantani Dasgupta
“I wanted to write a story that doesn’t shy away from the problems but one that’s also hopeful.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Poor People Disappear
Nothing is not right. There is no indication there has ever been a house.
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Writing toward Meaning: A Conversation with Ethel Rohan
Ethel Rohan discusses her new story collection, IN THE EVENT OF CONTACT.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Sin Miedo
Just the two of us. Daddy and me. Charro and escaramuza.
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Illuminating the Darkness: Madeleine L’Engle’s The Moment of Tenderness
For anyone looking for some truth and tenderness amidst a still-trying time, look no further.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Shannon McLeod
“In my own experience, anxiety entails dwelling on the past.”
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Hell Is a Young Man: Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent
The brutality of frat culture, Nugent suggests, is a veneer that hardly masks its devotees’ miseries and insecurities.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Notes Toward the End of the World
At the beginning of the trip, we couldn’t wait to reach the end of the world.
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The Art of Striving to Convince: A Conversation with Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken discusses her new story collection, THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM.
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The Plague within a Plague: Ethel Rohan’s In the Event of Contact
Rohan is masterful at mining these triads for their palpable uneasiness and unavoidable suffering.
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Insinuative Curvilinearities: A Conversation with Garielle Lutz
Garielle Lutz discusses her new story collection, WORSTED.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Additional Skills Include
Patience became your lifeline. You almost wrapped it around your neck.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Callum Angus
“When I first came out as trans, I learned a lot from trans youth; they taught me so much.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Boy of My Dreams
I cannot stop dreaming about the sixteen-year-old boy I loved madly almost twenty years ago.
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Writing Down the Shadows: Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror
We get to devour our horror from the top of the head down to the tips of the toes.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: On the Sea
The beach was shrinking. That was how we thought of it at first.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Next Unicorn
My job was to help people suspend disbelief.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Mike Alberti
“I think about loss as echoes or circular structures.”
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Agency Over Anything Else: Talking with Elle Nash
Elle Nash discusses her new short story collection, NUDES.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Hibiscus Tacos
It’d been a while since I’d spent time in a body.
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Upending the Scene: A Conversation with Te-Ping Chen
Te-Ping Chen discusses her debut story collection, LAND OF BIG NUMBERS.
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Why We Believe What We Believe: A Conversation with Dantiel W. Moniz
Dantiel W. Moniz discusses her debut story collection, MILK BLOOD HEAT.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: The Tangible Darkness
The ground trembles, setting his flesh and bones vibrating.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Black Talk
She wanted more, but couldn’t fathom releasing what she already had.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Kind of Alone?
Everything old felt far away; everything new felt exhilarating.
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