The Daily Rumpus
Get Overly Personal Emails
From Stephen Elliott
On Monday, Nov. 25, 1991, my mother woke me up with a knock on the door.
“What’s the name of that singer you love so much?” she asked, cigarette and coffee in hand. “Because he’s on the news.”
...more
“Now, 23 years later, I’m a broke poet with two books and a small fan base that digs my shit. Not too shabby for a half-ass, lazy, somewhat smart guy like myself.”
“I have no idea what her name was. Something Polish. It was a girl at a family reunion…”
Selections from answers from interviews taken by students for English 251: Interviews and Oral History class at The College of Saint Rose:
...more
Jessica Anthony’s first novel, The Convalescent (McSweeney’s Books) is the first recipient of McSweeney’s Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award. It’s about a really short guy who sells meat out of a bus in Northern Virginia and is in love with his pediatrician doctor, and contains flashbacks to medieval Hungary.
The first step in the modification of any behavior—inappropriate or otherwise—is to define said behavior. The purpose of this monograph, then, is not to advocate nor caution against any behavior for participants and exhibitors at BookExpo America, “Where the World of Publishing Comes Together.”