Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me
As long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
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Posts Tagged: trauma
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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Free Indirect Suicide: An Unfinished Fugue in H Minor
I want a PhD in how to want, effortlessly, to be alive.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with T Kira Madden
T Kira Madden discusses her debut memoir, LONG LIVE THE TRIBE OF FATHERLESS GIRLS.
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ENOUGH: A Drama Queer Navigates Trauma
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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Borders and Boundaries: Talking with Irina Reyn
Irina Reyn discusses her new novel, MOTHER COUNTRY.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #166: T Kira Madden
“I want to always fight for art, not against it.”
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When Our Inner Voices Speak: Reema Zaman’s I Am Yours
Reema’s book teems with gorgeous metaphors.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #165: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
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Closing the Loop: Sophia Shalmiyev’s Mother Winter
I am mother. I am child. I am mother. The overlapping, hard-won truth—victim either way, saved either way.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Hala Alyan
Hala Alyan discusses her latest collection, THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAR.
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Peripheral Terror: Total Recall by Samantha Giles
There is horror in how a memory can be altered or rendered “false” by exterior forces.
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A Friend in the Dark
The process of guiding people to speak their truths was isolating.
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Unspeakable Mothers: Talking with Sophia Shalmiyev
Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her debut memoir, MOTHER WINTER.
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ENOUGH: A Bonfire of Blossoms, A Pile of Ash
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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Good Enough: Foraging for Answers with Mary Oliver
Creation begets death which begets more creation.
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Eva Hagberg Fisher
Eva Hagberg Fisher discusses her debut memoir, HOW TO BE LOVED.
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Seeking Truth: A Conversation with Ruth Baumann
Ruth Baumann discusses her debut poetry collection, PARSE.
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Pull Up a Chair: A Conversation with Tyrese Coleman
Tyrese Coleman discusses her debut memoir, HOW TO SIT.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #161: Andrea Baker
“I had to save my own life. I had the right to save my own life.”
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Our Madness: Talking with Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Sarah Fawn Montgomery discusses her debut memoir, QUITE MAD.
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