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Collective Mourning and Community: A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat
3+ hour, 23+ min ago (626+ words) It was such a pleasure speaking to Edwidge Danticat over Zoom. I have adored Danticat’s writing since college when I read her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory (Soho Press, 2015). I remained a steadfast fan of all of her books, her…...
Intergenerational Graphic Novel
4+ hour, 37+ min ago (140+ words) The Rumpus i feel as if i could write an intergenerational graphic novel. something something about how my father came to the u.s. and didn’t see his family for 9 years (2 for the green card, 5 for the citizenship test, 2 for the sponsorship…...
On Creating a Non-Binary Buffy & a Crypt of Queens in the Closet: A Conversation with Dom&Ink
22+ hour, 57+ min ago (1858+ words) Queens of the Crypt is the debut graphic novel of British freelance illustrator Dominic Evans, pen name Dom&Ink. With a background in fashion illustration and a passion for reality-TV divas and comic books, Dom&Ink wrote and illustrated this…...
Every Poem Has A Winner
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (88+ words) Tiny new glands, dotting the areola.Pale. Sometimes groupedtogether. Does nipple play in the third trimester inducelabor? Miscarriage in the first?Do the sperm give up faster when they hit the amniotic sac?Flintstrike afterimage, expire for mein the green…...
Girl on Girl (Week Three): Lust Without Equity Is Desperation, Regardless of the Story We Tell Ourselves
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (866+ words) I have procrastinated this response because I know I will be twisting myself into knots to avoid my own hypocrisy, so I am going to attempt to interrogate my reaction to your date with enough self-awareness to admit that your…...
On the Question of My Typographical Intentions Running across a White Page or A Brief Undercurrent, if You Will, on Messaging within US-American Popular Culture: A Haibun
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (1115+ words) 2.& still I love the movie, perhaps for the same reason you love the movie—because it is distinctly “American;” but, in my interpretation (which is where our paths might diverge), Gump reveals very plainly who has access & mobility within a…...
The Space We Make for Each Other
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (100+ words) Allison Cole is a Rhode Island–based illustrator, educator, and visual storyteller whose work brings together playfulness and purpose. With more than twenty years of experience, her practice spans brand collaborations, surface design, narrative illustration, and sequential art. She teaches…...
The Dream State of Metafiction & Wild Freedom of Short Stories: An Interview with Jess Row
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (574+ words) I spoke with Row about metafiction, Buddhism, and the wildness of short stories over Zoom. The Rumpus: Storyknife brings together stories written over a period of almost two decades. At what point did you realize that these stories belonged together,…...
What Forced My Father to Buy Our First TV?
1+ week, 4+ day ago (601+ words) The room went quiet again. My father said nothing. He looked at his son’s back, at those raw lines, and walked out into his room. For the first time, the argument was over. The fear that had kept us from…...
Vanlife at the End of the World
1+ week, 5+ day ago (392+ words) When a friend forwarded us a listing for a discounted campervan in Phoenix, we pulled the trigger before we could invent the downsides. I hopped on a one-way flight and, grinning, drove back to San Diego the same night. “Please,…...