Aimee Liu

The second dose was supposed to be my reunion pass. Thanks to COVID-19, I couldn't get back to Connecticut fo…

The novelists Susan M. Gaines and Jean Hegland coined this term when they were exchanging manuscript drafts i…

The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #232: Mary Morris With her groundbreaking 1988 memoir Nothing to Declare , …

Aimee Liu is the author of the new novel Glorious Boy , as well as the historical novels Flash House, Cloud M…

An Exploration of Belonging: Talking with Donna Hemans Jamaica-born writer Donna Hemans has been said to hear…

My new novel Glorious Boy began with a dream. On a tropical island during an emergency evacuation, a young gi…

The law school at UC Berkeley, after a yearlong review, has formally asked the chancellor to take the name "B…

One year ago my husband and I decided to sell our home of 15 years. We loved it, our Big House. We had seen o…

Why does this story matter? Because of the feeling. Because of the love. Because Carolyn Hall Young embodies …

Today it's popular to say that political correctness is destroying America, but a recently discovered set of …

As a teacher of creative writing and the author of four novels, I find it impossible to watch the unfolding s…

At this point, essentially 1.5 months in, I expected to feel upbeat and accustomed to the regimen. After all,…

Several weeks ago, as I began composing an MFA commencement address to deliver at my college this month, I fo…

Discovering the royal keys to addictive drama 1 1 an abrupt, presumably unintended juxtaposition of the exalt…

Primal emotion is the aim of all great writing. By primal I mean the deepest, oldest, and most fundamental we…

The job of the novelist is to create a fictional world so convincing that the reader will suspend their natur…

Little Albert Einstein was a handful. He threw tantrums, resisted potty training, ignored anything or anyone …

When COVID-19 recedes - as eventually it will - into our collective rear view, what aspects of this pandemic …

It's summer in the middle of a pandemic and the worst economic crisis of our lifetime. Each day the ews seems…

In my experience, fathers tend to fall into two general camps. There are the dads so preoccupied with their o…

Lucky for me, my father was a packrat. Dad spoke little about his childhood in China during the Warlord Era, …

"Los Angeles Heiress Elopes With a Chink" That headline still shocks me. It shouldn't. Epithets like "chink"a…

M ajor A. Denis McCarthy was a complicated hero. Before World War II (WWII), as Superintendent of Police for …

I kept a large green votive candle burning as a form of prayer during the last six months of my niece's life.…