Lamentation for Songbirds
If the birds were first, other small things would surely follow, and we are the caretakers of small things.
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whales
15 posts
Allowing for Breathing Room: A Conversation with Jessica Lind Peterson
Jessica Lind Peterson discusses her debut essay collection, SOUND LIKE TRAPPED THUNDER.
Blood Falls: On Self-Harm and Making Pain Visible
Always present and never heard, like the pain I feel but don’t know how to share.
Letters in the Early Light of Morning
Maybe you have come to save us. From what? From ourselves.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #73: Maggie Shipstead
I first met Maggie Shipstead in 2011 when she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She had not yet published her first novel, Seating Arrangements, which would later become…
Weekly Geekery
Ladies: we’re more likely than men to cannibalize. Diversity dilemmas and the Hollywood sci-fi industrial complex. Oedipal orcas? Male killer whales need menopausal mom to survive.
Weekly Geekery
Lizard brain, meet the one-sentence novel. Sea slugs: the key to why you’ll remember this article. Are millenials “empty inside”? New books reveal the truth!
Weekly Geekery
The hegemony of email. The mermaid who is saving the ocean. Uranium cures. Everyone who writes online has been told page views matter—except they don’t. Teaching fairness.
Rumpus Original Fiction: Out on the Coast
When he was five, six, seven, and eight, Max spent most of the summer thinking about the whale, sitting in his room with the shades drawn remembering the first visit and looking forward to the second, just before the new school year.
The Loneliest Whale In The Ocean
Somewhere in the Pacific ocean, a whale of unprecedented size is swimming around and calling out to other whales, with no response. This is the “52 Blue” whale, subject of…
