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Jory John

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Jory John is the co-author of All my friends are dead, I Feel Relatively Neutral About New York, All my friends are STILL dead, Pirate’s Log: A Handbook For Aspiring Swashbucklers and the forthcoming K is for Knifeball: An Alphabet of Terrible Advice. He is also the editor of Thanks and Have Fun Running the Country: Kids’ Letters to President Obama. Jory has written for the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Believer and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. His comic panel, Open Letters appears in a dozen alt weeklies. His website is www.bigstonehead.net and he’s on Twitter @joryjohn.

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The Rumpus Interview with Dan Kennedy

While many readers are familiar with the melancholy persona he’s adopted—and despite having written a new novel about a life falling apart—author Dan Kennedy is finally ready to admit something to the lit crowd, here and now: he loves mainstream American comedy...

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The Rumpus Interview with Natalie Dee

Cartoonist Natalie Dee's eponymous website, NatalieDee.Com, has consistently ranked among the most highly trafficked comic sites on the Internet since its debut. Her comic panels are equally hilarious and dark

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The Rumpus Interview with Lorin Stein

When Lorin Stein took the helm at the Paris Review in April 2010, he was just the third editor in the magazine’s storied history. Founded by the legendary George Plimpton in 1953, the Review has been responsible…

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THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH DAVID REES

With the War on Terror less than a month old, David Rees sat up in his Brooklyn apartment one night and wrote eight comic strips about the world's newest (and vaguest) war. His frustrations were on full display. His method: a conversational comic about the state of the world,

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The Rumpus Interview With Joel Stein

At age 27, Joel Stein was hired by Time magazine as a staff writer. In many ways, Stein quickly turned the decades-old publication — revered, traditional, dry — on its…

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The Rumpus Interview With Jon Carroll

Jon Carroll has written more than 8,000 columns for the San Francisco Chronicle, having become the newspaper’s star, leading voice and, essentially, its conscience.

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The Rumpus Interview with Jeffrey Brown

Comic aficionados have been aware of Jeffrey Brown’s talents since the publication of Clumsy in 2002, a raw and honest graphic novel about a promising, but ultimately doomed, long-distance relationship.

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