April 2014

THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: WONDER BOYS BY MICHAEL CHABON

Michael Chabon's career is often the work of a writer hell-bent on destroying the line between "literary" and "genre," and his most famous work is an epic adventure novel about comic-book creators.

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The Language of Desire

The alchemy of desire is much harder to master, its falls more tragic. And yet our language for it is maddeningly woolly. The great poets have striven for clarity here but most of us are doomed

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Jane Austen Would Be Eating Top Ramen Too

With writers, it’s usually neither rags to riches nor riches to rags. Marx had Engels, Austen had her family. Read this and rest assured: some cool people lived with their…

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Rumpus Original

The average Netflix subscriber streams 87 minutes of video a day—four episodes of a half-hour comedy. We don’t just binge because it’s something to do and we’ve got time to kill. There is something deeper going on.

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The Music Behind the Poems

Poetry and music share a word of process — composition — and are linked by negotiations of melody, harmony, rhythm, proportion, and discord. While some poets require silence to compose,…

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On Writing and Uncertainty

Is writing a fundamentally speculative act? This is one of the questions Jenny Offill was asked in an interview with the Paris Review. Offill discusses the uncertainty that comes with being…

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Art Undying, Georgia O’Beef Stew

Open mics, poetry contests, theatre prospects—a small “Art Bar” in Santa Cruz, California is using art, beer, and uniquely named food to fund local arts education. On its busiest days,…

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New Readers Report Theme: “Missed Connections”

We’re hungry for more writing from Rumpus readers, so we’re now accepting submissions for our next Readers Report! This time, we want you to tackle the theme “Missed Connections.” Please…

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National Poetry Month Day 4: “We Who Bite the Hand” by Jonterri Gadson

We Who Bite the Hand The asses that sit on grocery store eggs praying they will hatch belong to the hands that sever worms and snap beetle’s backs just so we can…

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UMass Amherst Celebrates 50 Years of MFA Writing!

Online literary magazine Route Nine released a special alumni issue to celebrate the UMass Amherst MFA for Poets & Writers’s 50th Anniversary. Route Nine is edited by Rumpus Tumblr editor Molly McArdle. In…

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Pepper Girl by Jonterri Gadson

Joelle Biele reviews Jonterri Gadson's Pepper Girl today in Rumpus Poetry.

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What’s the Point of Speed Reading?

“The dream of speed-reading has been around since long before screens were ubiquitous,” as James Camp writes in the New Yorker. Now, the much-discussed startup Spritz is promising to make…

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THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: WONDER BOYS BY MICHAEL CHABON

The Language of Desire

Jane Austen Would Be Eating Top Ramen Too

Why We Binge

The Music Behind the Poems

On Writing and Uncertainty

Art Undying, Georgia O’Beef Stew

New Readers Report Theme: “Missed Connections”

National Poetry Month Day 4: “We Who Bite the Hand” by Jonterri Gadson

UMass Amherst Celebrates 50 Years of MFA Writing!

Pepper Girl by Jonterri Gadson

What’s the Point of Speed Reading?

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