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“Body Geographic,” by Barrie Jean Borich
In Body Geographic, Barrie Jean Borich charts the route by which she came to be located in middle age, in the Midwest, and in long-term love with Linnea, a spouse who occupies the middle space of...
View ArticleNotable Chicago 11/3–11/9
Sunday 11/3: Feeling hungry? Pick up tickets to Here’s the Story and nourish your mind and body. It’s Chicago’s only potluck storytelling show. 7:30 PM, free with a dish to share, Stage 773.Tuesday...
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Notable Chicago: 1/13–1/19
Saturday 1/14: David Mitchell discusses his debut novel We Hold These Truths with Dave Baron, author of Pembroke: A Rural, Black Community in the Indiana Dunes. The authors will address the...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Butch and the Bathroom
My beloved and I have a routine, worked out over thirty years, a road show really, or a vaudeville act, each venue a version of the venue before, a wall-long mirror, a sea of side-eyed, not-looking...
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Notable Chicago: 2/23–3/1
Saturday 2/24: Visit City Lit Books for a conversation with David Klow, author of You Are Not Crazy: Letters from Your Therapist. 5 p.m., free. Sunday 2/25: Visit Women & Children First to...
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Notable Twin Cities: 9/9–9/15
Sunday 9/9: Minneapolis-based Poetry Asylum and the Weisman Art Museum are teaming up with PEN America to present BreakOut: Voices From the Inside as part of a nationwide activation in commemoration of...
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Both the Wound and the Healing: Talking with Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
I first met Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman in the summer of 2015 at the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, where we both participated in a memoir workshop led by Meghan Daum. I recall being struck by the...
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A Slant Wholeness: Talking with Barrie Jean Borich
I have been an ardent reader of Barrie Jean Borich for a long time and once even had the pleasure of reading with her at Women and Children First in Chicago, the city where she makes her home. Barrie...
View ArticleNotable Chicago: 9/6–9/12
Monday 9/9: Women & Children First hosts a midnight release of The Testaments, the anticipated sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Chicago...
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2020
AWP is almost upon us! Next week, over 12,000 attendees—writers, editors, publishers, teachers, students, and book lovers—will descend upon San Antonio, TX for four days of literary madness. The...
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