What to Read When You Want to Read about Sin
Grant Faulkner shares a reading list to celebrate ALL THE COMFORT SIN CAN PROVIDE.
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Poetry as Incantation: Talking with Andrea Actis
Andrea Actis discusses her debut book, GREY ALL OVER.
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Four Poems by SM Stubbs
We are full / of the many ways bodies breach and trespass.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Elizabeth Gonzalez James
Elizabeth Gonzalez James discusses her debut novel, MONA AT SEA.
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Making Space for Curiosity: A Conversation with Pik-Shuen Fung
Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, GHOST FOREST.
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An Imperfect Plan
In that moment of quiet, I screamed, as loud as I could, “I’m bisexual.”
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Spotlight: “Their House”
Hey! It’s been a while, huh?
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Accidental Altars
Choose, the specter points in opposite directions.
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It’s about Choices: Talking with Donika Kelly
Donika Kelly discusses her new poetry collection, THE RENUNCIATIONS.
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What to Read When You Don’t Know You’re a Poet
Kendra Allen shares a reading list to celebrate THE COLLECTION PLATE.
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The Ugly Side of Ambition: A Conversation with Joy Lanzendorfer
Joy Lanzendorfer discusses her debut novel, RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.
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Virtual Book Launch: Taylor Byas’s Bloodwarm
Join us as we celebrate the launch of BLOODWARM!
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Two Poems by Anuel Rodriguez
Your chest a prism of painted horses. / Your lungs reservoirs for holy water rain.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Daddies and Sons
When Jeb was old enough to have a family of his own, he hardly ever laid hands on his boys.
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Destiny as Fantasy: Talking with Beth Morgan
Beth Morgan discusses her debut novel, A TOUCH OF JEN.
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Voices on Addiction: Safety in a Blue Light
Television babysat our family—our thirteen-channel set, reception via a rooftop antenna.
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Spotlight: “Denny’s: A Breakfast Horror”
A deliciously strange fiction about how a diner chain ruined a life.
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The Legality of Love
I remember when I learned there is a syntax to love.
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Experience What We Experience: A Conversation with Adam Thompson
Adam Thompson discusses his debut story collection, BORN INTO THIS.
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What to Read When You Grew Up with the Baby-Sitters Club
Marisa Crawford and Megan Milks share a reading list to celebrate WE ARE THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB.
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At the Intersections of Identity: Talking with Dani Putney
Dani Putney discusses their debut poetry collection, SALAMAT SA INTERSECTIONALITY.
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Sketch Book Reviews: Quotients by Tracy O’Neill
An illustrated review of Tracy O’Neill’s debut novel, QUOTIENTS!
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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Marianne Boruch
Maybe not humble but make me— / how about pious?
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This Is Not a Metaphor
On the far side of silence, I suspect, is joy.
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That’s the Metaphor: A Conversation with Kendra Allen
Kendra Allen discusses her debut poetry collection, THE COLLECTION PLATE.
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We Are More: Three Poems by Summer Farah
The world is ending. I am still afraid of everything I was yesterday.
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That Moment of Transition: Talking with Musa Okwonga
Musa Okwonga discusses IN THE END, IT WAS ALL ABOUT LOVE and ONE OF THEM.
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Memoir Monday Online: Enjeti, Dancyger, Pham, Belc
Watch June’s online Memoir Monday reading!
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The Believers
Out here, no one knows who we are.
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How Beautiful and Rough: A Conversation with Ashley C. Ford
Ashley C. Ford discusses her debut memoir, SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Three-Finger Freddie and a Fight
He could spin a Spalding between those eight digits faster and smoother than anyone.
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