The Instructions Ships Today!
The Instructions by Adam Levin. A debut novel, 1,024 pages, published byMcSweeney’s and rumored to be the best book McSweeney’s has ever put out, is the next Rumpus Book Club selection. Today is the…
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Women in Trouble
While we usually classify films in terms of their genre, or their director, or the actors, what if, instead, we looked for visual patterns that linked them? An auteur theory…
The Weekly Book Club Round-Up
Lan Samantha Chang‘s novel All is Forgotten, Nothing is Lost appeared in the New York Times Book Review, making her and Tao Lin the 3rd and 4th Rumpus Book Club…
Animating Howl
In yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle, I chat with artist Eric Drooker about animating Allen Ginsberg’s Howl for the film of the same name as the long poem, and his resulting…
Really, We Just Wanted to Say “Federal Copy Editors”
New York City’s street sign are getting a makeover: “Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The…
Magazine Review #1: Ploughshares
In his introduction to the issue, guest editor Jim Shepard says, “I’ve been drawn to protagonists who are geniuses at knitting together self-indictment and self-exoneration in ways that are…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #30: Paula Whyman in Conversation with SM Shrake
Paula Whyman talks with SM Shrake about his annual witch costume in The Rumpus’s thirtieth mini-interview!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Is the stegosaurus in trouble too? (which reminds me, have talked about the “bone wars” recently?) Oh hey, probably habitable other planet, sup? Space station technology brings you the hip…
On Blowing My Load: Thoughts from Inside the MFA Ponzi Scheme
"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." – Flannery O'Connor