Read Rumpus Original The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Daddy Issues Gwen WernerFebruary 26, 2017 What I’m saying is I was a fucking wreck and it’s not my dad’s fault.Read
Read Rumpus Original Not a Widow Michelle MillerDecember 20, 2016 I want to think of him as inhuman and selfish instead of an admirable man who eventually succumbed to a brain chemistry he had no control over.Read
Read Rumpus Original Out the Road Kenneth R. RosenJuly 5, 2016 Long before reaching it, I knew about the end.Read
Other Writers’ Roaring Twenties Lauren O'NealOctober 10, 2013 What were/are you doing in your twenties? If you’re F. Scott Fitzgerald or Zadie Smith, you were publishing groundbreaking novels. If you’re Jack London, you were losing teeth from scurvy…Read
Read Rumpus Original Stay Gold Laura GoodeJanuary 17, 2013 I wanted to be the author of my own destiny, of my own chaos: I wanted to self-activate: I did not want to live my life half-asleep.Read