April 2014
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Reading: Still Probably a Good Idea
We linked to an Atlantic article in January about the recent decline in readers in America. According to the article, 23 percent of Americans went without reading a single novel in 2013. Now, Time has a summary of a recent study of reading’s…
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White People Everywhere
White male editors still dominate publishing and white male authors still dominate bestseller lists. Writing over at Plougshares, literary agent Eric Nelson explores the problem: I have frequently presented books as an editor to a room full of only white people.…
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The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show: Matthew Zapruder
In the second episode of The Rumpus Late Nite Poetry Show, Dave Roderick sits down with Matthew Zapruder for a chat about his latest collection, Sun Bear, his dual role as poet and musician, and close encounters with Grace Paley.
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Boo Radley, Social Media Star
Last Monday, Harper Lee brought an end to what CNN has called “a glaring holdout in the digital library of literary masterpieces,” and the news has social media buzzing with fans chomping at the bit. Lee has finally agreed to…
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Police Called on Teens Giving Away Banned Book
After Sherman Alexie’s novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian was banned by an Idaho school district, a crowdsourced funding effort bought a book for every kid in the local junior high school. Nearly all of the books…
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National Poetry Month Day 30: “Jubilate Patro” by Brian Spears
Jubilate Patro For I will consider my father SamFor he praises God in his mumbles and circular storiesFor his left arm is crooked to remind him of original sinFor half his brain was cut off from blood when he was…
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Poetry Fight
The 1968 Stony Brook World Poetry Conference brought together more than 100 poets of varying styles and personalities. After a boozy weekend, at the farewell party, emotions (and presumably alcohol) spilled over into a massive brawl. Writing for the New…
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Woman Without Umbrella by Victoria Redel
Brachah Goykadosh reviews Victoria Redel’s Woman Without Umbrella today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Josiane Curtis
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Josiane Curtis. Here’s an excerpt: I imagined that sometime down the road, a teenager might appear at my door wanting to know why she smiled crooked or threw her head back when she…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bilateral gyandromorphism is your genetic anomaly of the day. The world is filled with abandoned amusement parks. The trees that miss the mammoths. (Don’t we all though?) I don’t want to freak you out or anything but tornadoes are absolutely…
