Causing a Rumpus
Founding editor Stephen Elliott has a great interview up over at TruthDig in which he talks about activism, sex, this very website, and “The Art of the Overshare.”
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The Girl with the Hidden Face
I’ve been a professor at the University of Detroit Mercy for over fifteen years, but it wasn’t until last month that I noticed the girl shielding her face from the…
Rick Moody Is Tweeting the Future
“I think the guy who wrote to me about reading my novel on the iPhone (where it’s 2,200 pages long) should have better things to do. #moodypw” Author, Rumpus columnist,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Please don’t hate me. Sometimes I just want to link to pictures of utensils. Silver! On the Moon! Illustrating Finnegan’s Wake. I wish I knew more about Germany so I…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club with Timothy Donnelly
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Timothy Donnelly about his poetry collection, The Cloud Corporation.
The Eyeball #36: BRAKHAGE!!!
I taught another session of my Experimental Films as Writing Prompts class at Hugo House last night. This one we looked at some films by Stan Brakhage. At the outset…
Travelling With Tintin
Although I didn’t read them as a kid, I love the idea that Tintin comics, in the era before television, could act as travelogues for people curious about the world…
More Literary Trading Cards!
I grew up collecting baseball cards. They were my first passion. It was an exciting hobby because every pack initiated a quest. It wasn’t that I cared much for the…
Towel-Snapping The Janitor’s Ass
“C: Where did the idea [for The Instructions] come from? AL: Nowhere really, unless maybe from the sentence “I towel-snapped the ass of the Janitor,” which used to be the…
“Flight Distance,” “Tornado,” and “Wildfire”
Over at The Awl, three new poems by Robin Beth Schaer.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #54: The Lusty Broad
The question is how would your life be transformed if you chose to love this time for once with all your intelligence?