2014
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This Week in Short Fiction
This week, last week, men who have taken lives are walking away unpunished, unquestioned even. We have their victims’ names: Mike Brown. Eric Garner. We have their final words: Hands up, don’t shoot. (Six shots fired.) I can’t breathe. (Repeated…
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Free Upgraded Shipping on Rumpus Holiday Gifts!
Head over to The Rumpus Store, pick out gifts for everyone on your list, and make your purchase. It’s as easy as that—we’re upgrading all shipping to priority mail from now to Christmas, to make sure your gifts reach you…
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Mistress Morgana Maye’s Holiday Gift Guide For Perverts
I’ll let you in on a little secret: your sweetie doesn’t want socks or a new Roku.
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Notable Chicago: 12/5–12/11
Friday 12/5: The Interview Show is back at The Hideout, featuring Jonathan Eig, among others. 6:30 p.m. Saturday 12/6: The third annual Chicago Book Expo is at Columbia College and features local authors and presses as well as panel discussions…
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How to Be a Writer and Also Have a 401K
At The Morning News, seven writers with full-time jobs talk about how they fit (or attempt to fit) writing time into their work weeks, and the general conclusion is: There isn’t an elegant solution to cramming a writing life into…
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Appropriating Rural Poverty
We’re living in a golden decade for rural escapist fare: the latest, most extreme iteration of a cultural construct that effectively removes people living there from society’s list of concerns. The effect of these savvy new Westerns is, in some…
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The View from Saturn by Alice Friman
Tariq al Haydar reviews Alice Friman’s The View from Saturn today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Mirrors and Windows
Jacqueline Woodson responds to Daniel Handler’s racist watermelon joke at the National Book Awards with a moving and direct piece in the New York Times. She neither condemns nor forgives Handler, but instead focuses on her personal history with the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Breaking: the NSA are big nerds who used to write communist fan fiction. Breaking: electric eels are nuts! It’s time to count a jar of coins on the internet for science. A geologic map of the moon. On a related…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer discusses the environment, his childhood, and the conception and conclusion of his Southern Reach Trilogy.
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2014: The Year of the Debut
Though he admits that “it can be a little silly to sum up an entire year of books,” Electric Literature’s Lincoln Michel suggests that “2014 might be the year of the debut.”
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Story of an Artist
“You don’t have to be at the mercy of the muse. You need your own internalized thinking process that you can perform again and again.” Although Lena abandoned her desire to be an artist in the strict sense, her definition…