Driven from the Village with Pitchforks
“Monster” is a good name for anything you want to destroy.
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Posts Tagged: trauma
A Box Full of Darkness: Talking with Adrienne Brodeur
Adrienne Brodeur discusses her new memoir, WILD GAME.
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In the Dark
He was the creature under the bed, the ghost in the attic, the monster in the closet.
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A Storm Underneath: Talking with Shonda Buchanan
Shonda Buchanan discusses her new memoir, BLACK INDIAN.
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Art Is Everything: Talking with Alex DiFrancesco
Alex DiFrancesco discusses their new novel, ALL CITY.
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Anger as Fuel: A Conversation with Dani Burlison
Dani Burlison discusses ALL OF ME: STORIES OF LOVE, ANGER, AND THE FEMALE BODY.
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Beginning Again: Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
For Little Dog, putting language to memory becomes a way to survive.
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Masculinity and Fatal Desire in The Skin I Live In
Why, in art of all things, should we ignore the intuition of the body?
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I Am the Ignition
I don’t believe in redemption stories.
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A Place for Magic, a Place for Joy: Talking with Keah Brown
Keah Brown discusses her debut essay collection, THE PRETTY ONE.
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You Are Your Own Director: A Conversation with Karen Finley
Karen Finley discusses her most recent book, GRABBING PUSSY.
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Transcending the Trauma: A Conversation with Tracy Strauss
Tracy Strauss discusses her debut memoir, I JUST HAVEN’T MET YOU YET.
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Growing the Courage: A Conversation with Frances Badalamenti
Frances Badalamenti discusses her debut novel, I DON’T BLAME YOU.
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A Different Kind of Balance: Talking with Samantha Giles
Poet Samantha Giles discusses her newest collection, TOTAL RECALL.
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ENOUGH: The Quartering Act
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Amber van de Bunt
Amber van de Bunt discusses her debut memoir, OVERCOME.
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ENOUGH: A Before Without an After
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #179: Miriam Toews
“The root causes of patriarchal violence need to be understood.”
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ENOUGH: Rape of a Goddess
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me
As long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
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Doing the Work of Empathy: A Conversation with Marin Sardy
Marin Sardy discusses her debut memoir, THE EDGE OF EVERY DAY: SKETCHES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA.
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A Cleansing Tornado: Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff by Sara Borjas
Undergirding all the truth about pain is the triumph that comes from having a heart like a window and a mouth like a cliff.
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Nurture Rupture: On Motherhood, Writing, and Gender Inequality
Do I have a public self that is separate from my private self? I’m not so certain about that.
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Making Space at the Center: Talking with Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Kali Fajardo-Anstine discusses her debut story collection, SABRINA & CORINA.
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A Strange Liminal Space: George Abraham’s The Specimen’s Apology
Each formal experiment is a temporary hole into a new world that opens, then collapses, behind the reader.
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Objectivity Is My Enemy: A Conversation with Dave Cullen
Dave Cullen discusses his new book, PARKLAND: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.
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The Thread: The Unthought Known
The whole word suddenly fell apart, both as a concept, and as a sound.
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Teeth: An Oral History
Few people can tell that my smile is literally fake.
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ENOUGH: The Face of Zero
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary people that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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The Pains of the Past: A Conversation with Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde
Golnaz Hashemzadeh Bonde discusses her second novel, WHAT WE OWE.
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