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Rumpus Exclusive: “Brave Is a Decision”
Let me explain to you what I looked like at nineteen. Physical self-description is one of the harder things for a memoirist to do. Especially a female American one. Self-deprecation is expected, and...
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A Photographer’s Wife
Pre-pandemic, my husband was always meeting new women. These women worked as food and prop stylists and assistants to food and prop stylists on the sets where my husband was the photographer. The women...
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Why We Believe What We Believe: A Conversation with Dantiel W. Moniz
Dantiel W. Moniz’s debut story collection, Milk Blood Heat, just published this week from Grove Atlantic, but you might’ve already encountered her work in the Paris Review, Tin House, One Story,...
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Fundamentally, Necessarily Vulnerable: A Conversation with jamie hood
Out last December from Grieveland is how to be a good girl, the debut book by jamie hood that was named a “Best Book of 2020“ by Vogue. This 170-page hybrid collection of poetry, diary entries, and...
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On Resilience, Tender Rituals, and Responsible Love: Talking with Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon, the award-winning author of the best-selling memoir Heavy: An American Memoir, recently released a revised edition of his first work of nonfiction, a collection of essays titled How to...
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Everything Must Change: A Conversation with Melissa Febos
“We get to live for a while inside that new life,” Melissa Febos writes in the last essay, “Les Calanques,” in her new essay collection, Girlhood. When she arrives in Cassis, France, she writes of...
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Soft Butch”
I. Soft There’s an onomatopoeia to the word. It begins with a sibilant, sinuous, sensual ess, then moves on to a gentle ah that caresses the palate. Then the quick succession of consonants hitting the...
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You can hear the difference in Rachel Cusk’s new novel. Her Outline trilogy redefined the narrator, as it abandoned characterization, plot, and description for the reported speech of others set in a...
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Felt Space
A year ago, my then-boyfriend-now-girlfriend Emily and I looked into a mirror together. I stood beside her, my five-foot-one nestled against her five-foot-six, our backlit frames staring at us in our...
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On Ghosting
The first time I tried to find love on the internet, no one warned me about the ghosts. They sprung from a coil of black chest hair or a curdled megabit of an ass picture or a ramshackle dollop of...
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