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Eliana Ramage, Author at The Rumpus
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (62+ words) Eliana Ramage'The Rumpus "You will write other novels" I find it affirming because (1) it quiets the worry that the first book has to say or hold everything, which no book can or should, (2) the word write." Become a member today…...
The First Book: Eliana Ramage
4+ hour, 21+ min ago (730+ words) The First Book: Eliana Ramage The Author: Eliana RamageThe Book: To the Moon and Back (Avid Reader Press, 2025)" The Elevator Pitch: In 25 words or less, what is your book about?One woman's obsessive quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut,…...
In Praise of Difficulty & Reading Toni Morrison: A Conversation with Namwali Serpell
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (716+ words) On Morrison is a comprehensive examination of Toni Morrison's writings, intelligence, her use of the Black literary form, her reading and writing process, and how she fragments language to make it her own. This book turned me into a lover…...
The Lovers
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (27+ words) The Lovers'The Rumpus Become a member today We support independent bookstores. 10% of sales on any titles purchased throughour Bookshop.org page or affiliate linksbenefits the magazine....
Hunger
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (85+ words) Bethany Kaylor is a writer and illustrator living in Iowa City. She's an MFA candidate at the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa, where she was a 2024-2025 Iowa Arts Fellow. Her essays and creative projects can be found…...
Courtney DuChene, Author at The Rumpus
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (69+ words) Courtney DuChene'The Rumpus Crumbs " all that's left of my coffee cake. Plates clatter as they're loaded in the dishwasher. Ashtrays on the bar. When Hopper painted Nighthawks he didn't intend to evoke loneliness "a waiter, two men in suits, a…...
The Inheritance of Grief and Work: Abbie Kiefer's "Certain Shelter"
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (1034+ words) Shelter becomes manifest for the speaker through place, particularly in towns devastated by the loss of industry. Through the setting of small-town Maine, Kiefer examines the way life is transformed after the closing of a town mill, and even more…...
Isaac Engelberg, Author at The Rumpus
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (68+ words) Isaac Engelberg'The Rumpus The mouse moves casually, irrationally, like it is curious. It does not see me yet. It is fat and grey like a mutt is grey. The scream is unlocked, some pre-language gesture at speech. I investigate its…...
Andrea Villa Franco, Author at The Rumpus
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (66+ words) Andrea Villa Franco'The Rumpus In his latest collection of poetry, Boix ushers readers into the halls of his personal museum, inviting us to peer within and peruse the memories and artifacts carefully numbered and ordered into the rhymes and lines…...
The Lesbian Erotic Poem: Eileen Myles and Gertrude Stein
1+ week, 2+ day ago (123+ words) If stanza means "little room," a poem is an entire house. If sound is a unit of breath, a poem is also a body. What does it mean to synthesize both metaphors" the house of the poem is a body,…...