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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger
I’d first read Lilly Dancyger’s Negative Space last summer, and rereading it in advance of our conversation revealed new layers of what I’d loved the first time around. As someone who, like Lilly’s...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Lilly Dancyger
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Lilly Dancyger about her debut memoir, Negative Space (Santa Fe Writers Project, May 2021), the book’s long road to publication, learning that conflicting truths can...
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The Space Between Vertebrae
Pain is like vinegar: noxious at first whiff then startlingly ephemeral, evaporating to leave no mark on memory. I have done battle with uncomfortable seats at parties and concerts, in airplanes and...
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A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing
NONFICTION Que sais-je? In a dream once, I traveled toward my mother on the back of red-brown horse, through towns and cityscapes and heavy night and gray fog and merciless winds. Geography was...
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Making Space for Curiosity: A Conversation with Pik-Shuen Fung
My father had been gone a year when I read Pik-Shuen Fung’s Ghost Forest, but I was only just starting to feel his death. Grief returns us to ourselves in new shapes, especially when the person you’ve...
View ArticleA Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight
When I think of my own existence as a Black woman, I think of the histories of joy and grief that have shaped me. What does it mean to live amid ongoing marginalization, violence, and resilience? Too...
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Pick Your Pleasure: Talking with Liz Asch
Liz Asch’s book of erotica, Your Salt on My Lips, out now from Cleis Press, slams into the sweet spot between poetry and raw body courage. A painter, essayist, podcast creator, and licensed...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Carly Inghram
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Carly Inghram about her new collection, The Animal Indoors (Autumn House Press, September 2021), feeling-based logic, and writing poems during a pandemic. This is...
View ArticleWoven Fibers and Broken Threads: Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour
Near the start of Katherine Agyemaa Agard’s of colour, she invites her reader to navigate through the book-long essay however they choose. Front to back, frenetically, or by starting wherever feels...
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Picasso Shares His Screen
Even though Picasso knew that millions of people would likely see Guernica at the 1937 Paris World Exhibition, he probably could not have imagined that eighty years later we’d look at his painting, a...
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