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If you’re in south Florida and you need an honest mechanic, ask me. I’ve got the guy for you. Seriously. The Queen of England is being replaced by a squid.…
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After The Show, or, They Do It In The World Cup
Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
For Us, the Daydreamers. From Science.
It just keeps progressing. Now scientific study is getting to the useful stuff, like re-inventing use into useless everyday things like daydreaming. Creativity depends on wandering. We all know it,…
The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #11: Nancy Lili Gonzalez
None of my furniture matches. Two red bar stools. One green cast iron chair, slowly turning gold. A chestnut drawer thing– I don’t know it’s proper name– it has three…
The Ascetic Fetish
Check out Flavorpill’s list of the 20th Century’s “most reclusive authors.” Is anonymity, as Salinger once said, “a writer’s greatest gift?” How limiting is the idea that writers are, by definition,…
Standardized Redactions
“What could be the purpose of an exercise testing students on such a lacerated passage — one which, finally, is neither mine nor true to my lived experience?” -Annie Dillard…
“You can never, ever, read this book, okay?”
Rumpus contributor Elmo Keep remembers her relationship with her father and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.
The Rumpus Is a Place for Poets
Today we have an excellent Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo, featuring an interview with Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize winner Neil de la Flor, a review of his collection Almost Dorothy,…
Alex V. Cook: The Last Book I Loved, The Last Novel
I finished off The Last Novel while sitting poolside suffering a monstrous earache, the kind that feels like someone pushed an egg into your ear while you were asleep and…
The Seven Deadly Sins
Eli Levin’s etchings for The Seven Deadly Sins, featuring lyrics from R & B songs (University of Wisconsin Press, 1966):
Morning Coffee
Why yes, I WOULD like to know about the Russian Liberation Army. Living fossils of the deep! (I heart you so much deep sea creatures.) Not entirely dissimilar: bowerbirds are…