writing
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Sentences
” . . . I’m pretending to be a student for the sake of a thought experiment I’m trying to disguise as a story so it has a better chance of getting read. Also, I look young.”
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From the Archive: The Rumpus Interview with Jade Sharma
Jade Sharma discusses her first novel Problems, the complicated feelings that came with debuting to rave reviews, and her writing and editing processes.
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Calliope
There are, as my niece says, so many ghosts in Cincinnati; they initiate the weather, evaporating only to rain down again…
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FUNNY WOMEN: Tailoring a Pitch Across Outlets
Hit me if you’re down for this excluze to all your compadbros.
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Hurry Up and Wait: Literary Community Is a Platform
What exactly is a platform? How do you create one?
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The Mentor Series: Lisa Locascio and Aimee Bender
Lisa Locascio interviews her mentor, Aimee Bender.
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Writing That Hurts: On Mark Doty’s Still Life with Oysters and Lemon
Was I ready to read this book, now? After all this time?
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Josephine Wiggs’s Memory Machines
Even though it’s all backed up, I worry about losing it all.
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Writing When Your Life Depends on It
Do I want to live, or do I want to write? Sometimes I think it’s that simple.
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Becoming Bodies
[W]e wanted something different from each other’s bodies than what was actually there, which might be why our bodies sometimes came together.
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Slush Piles in White
The sensibilities of whiteness do not want us to work, do not want us to think, do not want us to imagine outside of its bounds.
