Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Cold War was actually pretty great (in terms of helping us find lost ancient cities). Meanwhile: let’s all enjoy some Soviet spaceship interiors. SYNCHRONICITY ON THE INTERNET: Soviet visions…
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April 2014
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Spotlight: A.K. Summers’s Pregnant Butch
Writer and illustrator A.K. Summers's new graphic memoir, Pregnant Butch, looks at the increasingly common but still underrepresented experience of queer pregnancy with humor and complexity.
National Poetry Month Day 27: “Prodigal Electrons Return to Shine” by Matthew Zapruder
Prodigal Electrons Return to Shine is the name of the movie she wants to see, the first the daughter of a famous director whose plots to her always seemed designed…
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Wake the Goddamn World
On a darkened street in Prague, an older man assaults a younger woman, while an American teacher--safe in her apartment above--watches from the window. More than a decade later, Megan Stielstra remembers, interrogating accountability, time and language.
Roxane Gay and Leslie Jamison Get Personal About Essays
Rumpus essays editor and author of the forthcoming essay collection Bad Feminist Roxane Gay sat down to talk with The Empathy Exams author Leslie Jamison and Michele Filgate; the three women had an insightful…
Notable NYC: 4/26–5/2
Saturday 4/26: Andrew Durbin and Rod Smith join the Segue Series. Durbin’s Mature Themes is forthcoming from Nightboat Books. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Brooklyn Zine Fest. Brooklyn Historical Society,…
National Poetry Month Day 26: “Everything Twice” by Rae Gouirand
Everything Twice Pinkened quince with potatoes, cold for breakfast. Stones by the door I’ve pocketed the last year. Too bright today to see the road. One blue for the sky,…
The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by Derek Walcott
Barbara Berman reviews The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 today in Rumpus Poetry.
WHERE I WRITE #25: The Wild Pendulum
Here I am, seven years later, a “full-time writer.” I spend about half my time locked up in my apartment in the West End of Providence, Rhode Island, hunched over my laptop.
Plunge Into the Dark with Open Eyes
Terrifying though the unknown may seem, there are benefits to plunging into the murky waters of uncertainty. In an essay featured in the New Yorker, Rebecca Solnit writes, “It’s the job of writers and explorers…
The Girl with the Hair in Her Mouth
“What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness: those moments when another human being was there in front of me, suffering, and I responded sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly,”…