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We hope you were so busy taking your mamas out to brunch and showering them with love and appreciation that you simply had no time for The Rumpus this weekend.
We celebrated Mother’s Day with two very different interviews that ended up being the same in many ways.
...moreIf your Cinco de Mayo was too excelente for you to spend much time online, here’s a recap of what happened on the Rumpus this weekend.
An aquatic wonderland of a comic from Yumi Sakugawa.
“What if we are stuck?
...moreCheck out these tasty Rumpus morsels, posted over the weekend!
Wendy Ortiz interviews poet Louise Mathias about beauty, ecstasy, and eroticism…and “snakes and horses and sky and birds and hallucinogenic flowers, and stars, and the smell of creosote after rain, and…”
When journalist Maggie Downs lost a friend in a skydiving accident, many of her writer acquaintances filled her “voicemail…with interview requests instead of well wishes.” In her Sunday Rumpus essay “Spill,” Downs tries to figure out what role journalism has in times of tragedy:
...moreAre these articles designed to tell us that humans suffer?
Did you enjoy your weekend? Revisit it with a look at our weekend Rumpus features.
Didn’t enjoy your weekend? We have just the thing to cheer you up: weekend Rumpus features.
...moreHere’s what you may have missed on the Rumpus this weekend:
A Yumi Sakugawa comic about an elephant god.
An essay on parenting by Ben Tanzer.
...moreAnd yes, please note I have just lied to my older son. Parents do that a lot.
Happy Easter, and we hope you found all the eggs that have ever been hidden from you.
Our posting schedule was a little light because of the holiday, but we always have a Saturday comic by Yumi Sakugawa and a link roundup/essay by Zoe Ruiz.
...moreSome Rumpus weekend highlights to brighten up your Monday:
Wendy C. Ortiz interviews Eloise Klein Healy—the first poet laureate of Los Angeles and “who I wanted to be when I grew up.”
...moreWe hope your St. Patrick’s Day was free of snakes and blooming with four-leaf clovers. If you didn’t garnish your Guinness with Rumpus weekend features, you can catch up right now!
There’s the usual highly unusual Yumi Sakugawa comic, as well as a short story about a machine that shows users how situations play out in different universes.
...moreHere’s hoping you were too busy attending panels and buying Write Like A Motherfucker mugs at this year’s AWP to read The Rumpus this weekend. And here’s hoping you’ll read the two spectacular essays we ran right now.
The first is a piece about binges—on food, drugs, exercise, anything, everything—by Chloe Caldwell.
...moreWe ran some preetttty choice features this weekend.
Such as: “Imposter Moon,” a comic by Yumi Sakugawa.
And such as: “Object Lesson,” an essay by Amy Botula about the mementos we treasure, from beloved childhood stuffed animals to condom wrappers heavy with superstitious significance.
...moreIf you were too busy preparing kickass hors d’oeuvres for your Oscars party to read The Rumpus this weekend, we understand, and we’re here to help. Here’s what you missed.
An enchanting comic about an invisible crown by Yumi Sakugawa.
Anisse Gross interviews Joshua Mohr about his latest novel Fight Song and giving every idea, no matter how ridiculous, a chance on the page.
...moreHere’s what happened on The Rumpus this weekend:
We welcome our newest comics contributor, Yumi Sakugawa! She’s been doing Saturday Rumpus comics for several weeks, but now they’re officially part of a series called Yumi and Everyone We Know. Here is this Saturday’s.
...moreIf you didn’t catch them already, you’ll want to see the two awesome features we ran this weekend.
First, Antonia Crane interviews Jill Soloway, writer, producer, and director, about her film Afternoon Delight, which earned her the US Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance.
...moreIf you skipped the Rumpus this weekend to watch the Super Bowl (who wouldn’t after reading J. Ryan Stradal’s guide for people who don’t know about football?), here’s what you missed.
A gorgeous Yumi Sakugawa comic called “Of Light.”
Another comic, this one about Groundhog Day, by Cassie J.
...moreNeed to catch up on Rumpus features from this weekend? We’ve got you covered.
“I evaded capture and the result became six month’s worth of daily mail: false reports, found objects, collages, poetic rants and obscenity-laden letters that I mailed to our apartment, ephemera that I’m still mining for inspiration.” Michael Berger on making art while on the clock at work.
...moreLook at all this cool stuff we posted on the Rumpus this weekend! Just look at it!
“Near the end of my time at my job, my manager would say: The work you do, when you do it, is excellent.” “What Counts,” an essay by Ryan Pittington.
...moreCatch up with the Rumpus’s posts from this weekend!
“I can’t say that my work never crosses over into my mothering life. Career choices often affect who we are as people, as parents, the same way filmmakers can’t watch a movie without criticizing it.” Natahsa Deón on how her career as a criminal lawyer seeped into the rest of her life.
...moreThe Rumpus was packed like a tasty dumpling with features this weekend!
Amy Fusellman has an essay about what she learned besides tightrope walking while taking a tightrope-walking class.
Your One True Self: a comic by Yumi Sakugawa.
Melissa Chadburn interviews her mentor Dana Johnson about her novel Elsewhere, California and its take on class, race, and identity in Los Angeles.
...moreRing in the new year with these Rumpus interviews from the weekend!
There’s an interview with writer/director Craig Zobel about his movie Compliance, a fictionalized version of real-life series of events in which people posed as police officers over the phone and convinced fast-food employees to strip-search coworkers.
...moreIf you’re pondering the Christ in Christmas this year, you’ll want to check out the pieces we posted this weekend.
First, Donna Johnson interviews Erika Rae. Both are former Evangelicals who write about wrestling like Jacob with faith and guilt and “trying to be ’hot for God.’”
Then, a chapter from Rae’s memoir Devangelical: Why I Left To Save My Soul, about hoping for the end of the world.
...moreWe ran some really fabulous pieces this weekend that you’ll definitely want to read (or reread).
We interviewed Nataly Kelly about the immense weight that rests on the shoulders of translators, whether they’re translating poetry or interpreting 911 calls.
Elizabeth Tannen discussed what it was like growing up in the shadow of Jackie, the woman who was her father’s first wife and her brothers’ mother, and who died of cancer before Tannen was born.
...moreHow did you spend your weekend? Curled up with The Rumpus? If not, here’s what you’ll want to catch up on:
It is not an exaggeration to say that Lauren Becker’s essay “Safety” is one of the scariest things you’ll ever read (not to mention beautifully written).
...moreIf you were away from your computer this weekend, here’s what you missed at the Rumpus.
Remember when we blogged about the responses Emily Rapp gets when writing about her terminally ill son? Here’s some of that writing, an emotional steamroller of an essay titled “Dirty or Clean?
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