Best Friends
“Speaking English so well” seemed to be the key to open many doors.
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Posts Tagged: teenagers
The Isolation of Millennial Life: Ancco’s Nineteen
Nineteen is a book that’s by turns smart, sad, and scathing.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Ray Stoeve
“You can’t fake knowledge of zip zap zup.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight
He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
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Subverting the Wild West: A Conversation with Anna North
Anna North discusses her new novel, OUTLAWED.
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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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Rumpus Exclusive: “Kristy’s Invisible Hand and Das Baby-Sitters Club Kapital”
The babysitters inspired me, and Kristy’s entrepreneurial vision seemed plain yet elegant; easy-to-follow, too.
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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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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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Finding Healing in Gospel Music
I wasn’t pressured to be stoic. I was permitted to release. I was permitted to be.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Forsyth Harmon
“Yes: in terms of an authorial presence, I tried to tread lightly.”
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sheila Squillante
“I felt like I wanted to do it and not explain it.”
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Voices on Addiction: Heroin/e
She introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
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Holding Uncertainty: Talking with Teresa Carmody
Teresa Carmody discusses her debut novel, THE RECONCEPTION OF MARIE.
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Girl Power: Quan Barry’s We Ride Upon Sticks
But this is We Ride Upon Sticks: someone’s perm falls out, someone becomes prom queen.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Sacred Stories”
All anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Reina with White Roses
A block away from my house, Reina killed herself.
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Queering the Southern Gothic: A Conversation with Genevieve Hudson
Genevieve Hudson discusses her debut novel, BOYS OF ALABAMA.
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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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Rumpus Exclusive: “The Warning Bell”
“You are so sexy,” he said. I met his gaze. And the warning bell rang.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”
I’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #218: Rufi Thorpe
“It doesn’t matter your gender or your sexual orientation; you can disorder your eating.”
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Fields of Light
Light reflects differently off near and faraway objects. It’s all about the light.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Chelsea Bieker
Chelsea Bieker discusses her debut novel, GODSHOT.
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The Harder, Truer Thing: Talking with Chelsea Bieker
Chelsea Bieker discusses her debut novel, GODSHOT.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Clockwork
Turn the corner, let the darkness swallow you, and you’re in the stacks.
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Doing This Wild Thing: A Conversation with Leesa Cross-Smith
Leesa Cross-Smith discusses her new story collection, SO WE CAN GLOW.
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ENOUGH: Infra Dig
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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The Thread: Lacuna
If nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
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Off the Grid: Talking with Jamie Beth Cohen
Jamie Beth Cohen discusses her debut novel, WASTED PRETTY.
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