What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
...moreRumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family!
...moreA look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2019!
...moreThere is something so incredibly comforting about the honesty in Huber’s voice.
...moreLiterary events in and around NYC this week!
...morePorochista Khakpour discusses her new memoir, Sick, the difficulty of receiving good medical care, and the blessing of online community.
...moreNeed had carved out specific contours in my personality, and then it returned like a curse to fit in those spaces.
...moreA selection of AWP 2018 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
...moreIs there any fabric more well-loved than flannel? At Vela Magazine, Sonya Huber discusses the significance wearing flannel had to her teenage self in the 1980s Midwest: Flannel hid the shape of a woman, yet it revealed as we pushed our breasts against its grid; it protected us from scrutiny. Inside flannel’s soft tent, I […]
...moreFirst, what if your Christmas tree ornaments could tweet. Then, in the Saturday film review of Wild—the film adaptation of Dear Sugar columnist Cheryl Strayed’s eponymous novel—Kenny Ng praises Strayed’s “realness” and “punk aesthetic” while tempering expectations for the film. The author’s life-changing solo hike across 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail is rendered […]
...morePain moved into my body five years ago. It wasn’t the whack of an anvil or the burn of a scraped knee. This pain sat warmly on the surface of my hands, and reached up to my elbows like evil pink evening gloves.
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