This Week in Short Fiction
This is the week of fantastical fiction, of the weird and the magical, of re-imagining fairy tales and urban legends, of making the familiar strange and the strange familiar. On Tuesday, a new edition...
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(K)ink #7: Writing While Deviant: Brian Kornell
There’s evidence that D.H. Lawrence enjoyed an erotic power exchange relationship with his wife, that James Joyce was into scat (among other things), and that Oscar Wilde—well, most of us know what...
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The Limits of Extreme Beauty: Nicolas Winding Refn and Neon Demon
When I sat down at the hotel’s round dining room table, Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn asked me for permission to eat his breakfast. This moment of deference was the only one he made during the...
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Visible: Women Writers of Color #4: Jaquira Díaz
We started talking about dying long before the first woman jumped. This is a gripping first line for any essay, all the more for one looking back at the writer’s middle school years. In “Ordinary...
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The artist statement is not just a representation of what you are working on, but an intervention in what you are working on. If you start saying, I aim to do this and not to do this, maybe it keeps...
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This Week in Short Fiction
This week, C Pam Zhang has a flash fiction story at The Offing that is maybe about vampires but probably about girls, Chinese girls in particular. “Are They Vampires, or Are They Just Chinese?” is...
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Literary Rim Shots: A Chat with John Grisham
When John Grisham first sat down to write a book in 1985, he didn’t know much about writing. All he knew was that he was a bored lawyer turned lawmaker, resentful of the demands placed on him by...
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Spaces of Exception vs. Spaces of Redemption: The Films of Ana Lily Amirpour
In arguably the most famous scene of the 2014 film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the film’s female protagonist, Girl, takes her male love interest, Arash, home after a party. As Girl puts on a...
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Scripture and Ebony: A Love Story
Stillness. A breeze, a gentle tickle, like a soft kiss on the back of the neck. The roads are empty. Parking lots, empty. Over here, an abandoned ten-speed bicycle. Over here, vacant picnic tables....
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ENOUGH is a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for essays, poetry, fiction, comics, and artwork by women, trans, and nonbinary people that engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and...
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