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Discomfort, Desire, and Drugs: Talking with Ben Gwin
Ben Gwin’s debut novel, Clean Time: The True Story of Ronald Regan Middleton, is a sharp satire. The story follows (you guessed it) Ronald Regan Middleton through strung-out days, parties, a writing...
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Voices on Addiction: Spontaneous Combustion
My mother rises in a red and blue double helix of flame through my body. I can feel the DNA wires of her inside me, hot, hot, grape-vining up from my big toe to my skull and going back again in a...
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Voices on Addiction: A Review of The Recovering
I devoured Leslie Jamison’s The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath sitting on the fringe of a hotel bar in Atlanta on a Saturday afternoon, though “guzzled” might be the better word, as I...
View ArticleVoices on Addiction: Five Poems by Sophie Klahr
A ROOM IN CALIFORNIA It seems so innocent—to place my hand on the crown of his head while he drifts off __nods blanks out on the still-made bed inside the half-lit motel room. Then it...
View ArticleENOUGH: A Bonfire of Blossoms, A Pile of Ash
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #165: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s Sketchtasy was released October 2018 from Arsenal Pulp to widespread critical acclaim, including a place on NPR’s “Best Books of 2018.” Sketchtasy is Sycamore’s third...
View ArticleENOUGH: When Water Can’t Put It Out
ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women and non-binary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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Voices on Addiction: Fault Lines
In April and May, Voices on Addiction is partnering with Writing Our Lives (WOL) and its creator, Vanessa Martír. WOL came out of Vanessa’s deep want to see stories like her own out in the world....
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Voices on Addiction: Happy Birthday to Me
In April and May, Voices on Addiction is partnering with Writing Our Lives (WOL) and its creator, Vanessa Martír. WOL came out of Vanessa’s deep want to see stories like her own out in the world....
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Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Amber van de Bunt
In her debut memoir, Overcome, Amber van de Bunt is living life as Karmen Karma, porn star extraordinaire and alcoholic addict careening off the rails. Between childhood depression and a sex work...
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Voices on Addiction: Advice
So a friend’s daughter is using drugs. Do I know anything? What can she do? What I know has taken a long time to learn, and even longer to accept. There is nothing she can do. There was nothing I could...
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Love in the Belly of Beginning
Some moths have no mouths: Luna, Polyphemus, Atlas, Promethea, Cecropia. A moon, a cyclops, a burden of sky, an invisible sister to the one who brings fire, and a first king—all face and tail. If we...
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Impossible Hope
“We’re being invaded,” my Uber driver tells me as she signals, carefully watching the road ahead. “So many illegals,” she sighs. Sweat pools under the armpits of my dress suit, and I am either too hot...
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The Spot You’re Standing In: A Conversation with Chris Dennis
There is something of the divine in Chris Dennis. He is such a magical combination of humor and brilliance; he quotes cultural theorists, seems to have read everything, and yet maintains that...
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Voices on Addiction: The Opposite of Hallelujah
My brother keeps his shoes on a stacked wooden shelving system, one pair per compartment. Everything in his home is labeled in careful, imperfect handwriting. He eats with his fist closed tightly...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: La Yegüita
Karen broke out into a full sprint; that was the only way she’d ever hope of catching up to the new mare that everyone said would end up killing her. The locals used meters, but from what Karen could...
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Voices on Addiction: There Were Also Girls, Women
There was a boy. When I tell my story in a recovery meeting, this is the line that gets repeated. There was a boy. Of course, when I say, boy, I mean, young men. In 2005, it was Mark. We were both...
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Voices on Addiction: Heroin/e
In January and February 2021, Voices on Addiction is partnering with Roots. Wounds. Words. (RWW) and its founder, Nicole Shawan Junior. In July 2018, Nicole created RWW to eliminate the social,...
View ArticleAsking the Right Questions: Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom, one of the most anticipated novels of 2020, delivers an intimate portrayal of a Ghanaian family making its way in the contemporary American South, a story as...
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Voices on Addiction: Thief in the Night
In January and February 2021, Voices on Addiction is partnering with Roots. Wounds. Words. (RWW) and its founder, Nicole Shawan Junior. In July 2018, Nicole created RWW to eliminate the social,...
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