Amazon Now Turning Authors Against Publishers
You probably heard the news that Amazon has struck a controversial deal with literary agent Andrew Wiley. It works like this: digital rights are separate from print rights, and Wiley…
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Dan Weiss Thinks About Music Too Much #3: Dirty on Purpose
Everyone’s ex-girlfriends are moving to Austin next month. Understandably all of us are experiencing some mixed feelings about this.
“I Will Away,” a Rumpus Original Poem by Keetje Kuipers
I Will Away With your promises tucked like a dry newspaper under my safe arm.
Star-Smoked Skies
Kuipers is a “traditional poet” with respect to her unwavering focus on craft; the engine powering her verse is tight word choice that simultaneously conjures up tangible, living objects and…
Barbara J. King: The Last Book I Loved, Memory Wall
Short stories have never attracted me; the shock of moving from one to the next is too great. Just as I submerge fully in a new world, floating along on…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #24: Richard “The Ballbuster” Butterfield in Conversation with Cynthia Bregova
I know very little about Richard. I know that he is from Rhode Island, Jewish, has lived in Puebla, Mexico for twenty years, lives and owns an antiques store with his…
Morning Coffee
It would take the coldest of hearts to not appreciate these baby dream photographs. Retrofitting old cigarette vending machines to save the book industry (this is why Germany is better…
Dinaburg’s Cake
A short story from Doug Dorst’s latest collection, The Surf Guru, our Rumpus Book Club pick for July.
The Rumpus Poetry Club
Join today to receive the first Rumpus Poetry Club pick: Shane Book’s Ceiling of Sticks.