How We Cycle through Our Lives: Talking with Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer discusses her new essay collection, Circadian, her writing process, and the body as text.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #84: Susan DeFreitas
Picture this: a curbside juggler with a rose between his teeth. That’s the opening image of Susan DeFreitas’s powerful debut novel, Hot Season. Vivid (and sometimes strange) images strike again…
Elise Sherman Talks to Herself
Over at The Nervous Breakdown, Elise Sherman explores her literary roots in a self interview that touches on the South, her neo-Faulknerian tendencies, and the difference between New Orleans and the…
Slow and Steady
It took Gene Oishi 50 years to write his debut novel, a story about Japanese American identity and family during and after World War II. Over at The Nervous Breakdown,…
Ask Yourself a Question and Give Yourself an Answer
Excellent. When you’re asked, “Where do you get your inspiration?” what do you wish you could say, but keep to yourself? That as a child, my parents fucked me up,…
Who Are We Writing For?
Sandwiched between fictions on one side and instructions on the other, a woman is often denied the breathing room necessary to find her individual sexuality. In a conversation at the…
Lil Wayne: Ecofeminist
Back in college, Chelsey Clammer proclaimed herself an ecofeminist with an outbreak of bumper stickers on the back of her car: “Tree Hugging Dirt Worshiper,” “‘The Only Bush I Trust…
Love and Mark Ruffalo
Rumpus contributor Wendy C. Ortiz has an essay at The Nervous Breakdown about the two times she saw Mark Ruffalo and why she couldn’t talk about the first time for…
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Happy Birthday
I was in the bathroom of a CVS with my best friend, Kaitlyn, when I first discovered I was pregnant.
Next Letter in the Mail: Laura Bogart
Gird your loins: the next Letter in the Mail, going out Monday, July 15, is from Laura Bogart! If you’d like to receive her letter, subscribe by noon PT tomorrow. Laura is the…
“The Trance Dance”
The Nervous Breakdown excerpts Rumpus contributor Chloe Caldwell’s Legs Get Led Astray. “Some girls stood still. Some girls walked around the field. Some girls tried to walk into the woods…
“Diva Boy”
At The Nervous Breakdown, Rumpus contributor Melissa Chadburn writes about her relationship with her older brother. “By then Ken’s life was no secret. He’d already fought all his battles. His…