2013
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Notable Chicago 12/22–12/28
Between the holidays and the weather, it’s a quiet week here in Chicago. If you’re jonesing for some word love, you’ve still got a few options. Sunday 12/22: As always, Marc Smith and J.W. Basilo are hosting the Uptown Poetry Slam. Come…
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Women in Bed by Jessica Keener
What sends us to our beds? Desire, sure. Sex. But also sickness. Sleep. Loneliness and healing. Jessica Keener’s Women in Bed is a collection of nine stories about women at all stages of life and wanting.
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Lit-Link Round-up
Emily Rapp on living a happy life, in the “wrong” order. Laura Bogart on humanity amidst the apocalypse. Michele Filgate on literary self-loathing and gender.
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The Sunday Rumpus Review: Interrobang by Jessica Piazza
In the first sonnet of the sonnet sequence “People Like Us,” the speaker says, “By day I play nonstop if/then, internally pluck a love me, love me not lament…” This game—the jostle between possibilities and outcomes, the constant, obsessive evaluation…
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RIP Ned Vizzini
We at The Rumpus are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of writer Ned Vizzini at the age of 32. The author of Be More Chill, It’s Kind of A Funny Story, and other books, Ned was also an…
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Saturday Book Review: Slow Getting Up by Nate Jackson
Miles Wray reviews Nate Jackson’s SLOW GETTING UP today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems by Tom Hennen
Tova Gannana reviews Tom Hennen’s Darkness Sticks to Everything: Collected and New Poems today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Notable NYC: 12/21–12/27
Things are pretty slow this week. Enjoy the holiday! Saturday 12/21: Marie Buck and Arlo Quint read poetry as part of the Segue Reading Series. Quint’s Death to Explosions (July 2013) is his first full length book of poems. Buck’s…
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“It Happened To Me” Aftermath
Rumpus cartoonist MariNaomi wrote a powerful essay at XOJane about being sexually harassed during a comic convention panel. “This isn’t the first time this has happened to me. Years ago, at another comic convention, a fellow panelist blatantly looked me…
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Charlie Trotter and the Culinary Cult of Personality
I never thought I would find myself defending Charlie Trotter, at least not unironically.
