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Marital Piss
After Dan and I first had sex, curiosity set in. I liked his long, lean frame and matching dick. But all I knew about him was that he was an ordained minister studying to be a lawyer—a surprising...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan
A man cuts a woman with a knife. On the surface, those eight words are a story in themselves. But it makes a difference who the woman is, and a big difference who is doing the slicing. A doctor...
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Tripping the Ekphrastic Fantastic: Talking with Miah Jeffra
I first met Miah Jeffra in 2014, when we were Lambda Literary Fellows in Randall Kenan’s nonfiction cohort. Yes, that Randall Kenan. He called us possums, after Dame Edna, and gave us each a song...
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Cultural Attunement and “Otherness”: A Conversation with Aimee Liu
Best-selling author Aimee Liu‘s exquisite new novel, Glorious Boy, took her years to complete and proves itself well worth the time. Set before and during World War II on India’s remote Andaman...
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Hybrid by Nature: A Conversation with Tara Cambpell
If you google Tara Campbell, you’ll find page after page of publications. She writes in all genres, exploring form and voice like no other contemporary author, essayist, or poet. She has published a...
View ArticleQuiet, Radical Defiance: The Equivalents by Maggie Doherty
In 1954, Tillie Olsen was living in San Francisco’s working-class Mission District, and her hands were full. She was working multiple non-career jobs, leading community organization and activism, and...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Matthew Salesses
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Matthew Salesses about his second novel, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear (Little A, August 2020), the George Costanza method of writing, exploring the paths we do and...
View ArticleThe Complications of #MeToo: Mary Gaitskill’s This Is Pleasure
Mary Gaitskill is no stranger to feminist debates. Her writing does not evoke comfort nor a sense of good versus evil; she complicates such binaries, as literature should. This Is Pleasure is no...
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Others Would Tell Me Nothing Is Mine: Talking with Barbara Jane Reyes
Based in Oakland, Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and is the author of six full length poetry collections: Gravities of Center (2003), Poeta en San Francisco (2005), Diwata (2010),...
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Form Revealing Itself: A Conversation with Liz Prato
In Volcanoes, Palm Trees, and Privilege: Essays on Hawai’i, (Overcup Press, 2019) Liz Prato weaves her personal stories of loss, grief, and growing up and into the woman she is, with the history of the...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #231: Ruth O. Saxton
Fifteen years ago, Dr. Ruth O. Saxton was my professor in my MFA program. She punctuated her lectures and class discussions with verve and clear insights. But in the midst of that semester she suffered...
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The Category of Pretend: A Conversation with Makenna Goodman and Brian Gresko
I’m generally a slow reader, but I devoured Makenna Goodman’s incisive debut novel, The Shame, over the course of a couple days. In exquisitely composed sentences, The Shame tells the story of Alma, a...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Jenny Hval
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Jenny Hval about her new novel, Girls Against God (Verso Books, October 2020), working across a range of mediums, the magic of collaboration and community, how writing...
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Suffragette City: The Resistance of Red Bird
*** Source note: My main source for this comic is the biography, Red Bird, Red Power: The Life and Legacy of Zitkala-Ša by Tadeusz Lewandowski. Quotations are taken from it and from American Indian...
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Owning Your Piles: A Conversation with Maggie Smith
When I teach college introductory creative writing, I always begin the poetry unit by having my students read Maggie Smith poems. I do this because the magic of a Maggie Smith poem is not just in the...
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The Rumpus Mini-interview Project: Andrea Bartz
The best kinds of thrillers strike a delicate balance: They’re lightning-paced and deliciously twisty of course, but they also have something to say. That’s why I so enjoyed Andrea Bartz’s The Herd, a...
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Save St. Mark’s
St. Mark’s Medical Center is the iconic rural hospital politicians on all sides claim to be saving; it’s also where my mother has worked as a surgical nurse for over thirty years. In this tucked-away...
View ArticleInterrogating Language: Carlos Andrés Gómez’s Fractures
In my sophomore year of high school, I began a tradition of walking into school with my earphones connected to my iPod and hidden under my hijab, listening solemnly to Vitruvius, Carlos Andrés Gómez’s...
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What Am I Fighting For?: A Conversation with Deborah A. Miranda
Deborah A. Miranda is the author of four collections of poetry, Indian Cartography (Greenfield Review Press, 1999), The Zen of La Llorona (Salt Publishing, 2005), Raised by Humans (Tia Chucha, 2015),...
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