Larissa Speak: The Last Book I Loved, The Still Point
Have you ever played at being an Arctic explorer? Looked at the icy expanse of your backyard as if it was the desolate plain of a frozen tundra? Come to…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Did we find a totally new force of nature the other day? Maybe! Sewing machine orchestras are things that happen. Here are some nice pictures of black box recorders. Yep.…
National Poetry Month Day 8: “I Am Six” by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Lucky Fish was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection for December 2010. You can read Camille Dungy’s essay on why she chose Lucky Fish here, and you can…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Joseph Harrington
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club interviews Joseph Harrington about his recent collection Things Come On.
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
The Vatican likes hackers now, because they make things? Who are they, Hannah Arendt? That’s a far cry from the Pope Benedict XVI’s early writings that say (among other things,…
Losing Your Job to HuffPo
“In the end, 20 percent of AOL’s in-house workforce was canned and nearly every editorial staffer, including my own editor with whom I’d worked every day for two years, was…
Near and Far
We have now featured five “Rumpus Readers Report” collections (“Family/Holidays,” “Neighborhood,” “Impossible Love,” “Wants/Needs,” and “The Gift“), but let’s be honest, five is not nearly enough. We’re hungry for more…
A Very Special Discount
We only have a few Women of The Rumpus Literary Calenders left in stock and, seeing as we’re almost through March now, we’re offering a very special discount: you can…
The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Lidia Yuknavitch
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Lidia Yuknavitch about her new memoir, The Chronology of Water, her sexual life,
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #38: Alana Noël Voth in Conversation with Her Best Friend, Judy Salamon
I’ve known Judy Salamon two years. We work together, and she’s one of the main reasons I enjoy my job. Judy tells the best stories. She’s also a kind and…