Next Letter in the Mail: Laura Bogart
Gird your loins: the next Letter in the Mail, going out Monday, July 15, is from Laura Bogart!Laura is the recipient of the 2009 Grace Paley Fellowship for Fiction from The Juniper Institute at...
View ArticleThe Sunday Rumpus Essay: Happy Birthday
I was in the bathroom of a CVS with my best friend, Kaitlyn, when I first discovered I was pregnant. It was a Wednesday in early May of 2005 and I was sixteen. Moments earlier, Kaitlyn asked me to wait...
View ArticleLove and Mark Ruffalo
Rumpus contributor Wendy C. Ortiz has an essay at The Nervous Breakdown about the two times she saw Mark Ruffalo and why she couldn’t talk about the first time for a long time.My...
View ArticleLil Wayne: Ecofeminist
Back in college, Chelsey Clammer proclaimed herself an ecofeminist with an outbreak of bumper stickers on the back of her car: “Tree Hugging Dirt Worshiper,” “‘The Only Bush I Trust is My Own (and...
View ArticleWho Are We Writing For?
Sandwiched between fictions on one side and instructions on the other, a woman is often denied the breathing room necessary to find her individual sexuality. In a conversation at the Nervous Breakdown,...
View ArticleAsk Yourself a Question and Give Yourself an Answer
Excellent. When you’re asked, “Where do you get your inspiration?” what do you wish you could say, but keep to yourself?That as a child, my parents fucked me up, and the only way to cope with that was...
View ArticleSlow and Steady
It took Gene Oishi 50 years to write his debut novel, a story about Japanese American identity and family during and after World War II. Over at The Nervous Breakdown, Oishi interviews himself about...
View ArticleElise Sherman Talks to Herself
Over at The Nervous Breakdown, Elise Sherman explores her literary roots in a self interview that touches on the South, her neo-Faulknerian tendencies, and the difference between New Orleans and the...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #84: Susan DeFreitas
Picture this: a curbside juggler with a rose between his teeth. That’s the opening image of Susan DeFreitas’s powerful debut novel, Hot Season. Vivid (and sometimes strange) images strike again and...
View ArticleHow We Cycle through Our Lives: Talking with Chelsey Clammer
Ask a random person what their idea of an essayist is, and they’ll likely describe someone rigid, dull, probably male—someone as boring as the five-paragraph essays they were forced to write in...
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