2014
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New Readers Report Theme: “Remorse”
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 “Remorse.” Please send your submissions, maximum 400 words, to Susan Clements, silentjoy2001 AT yahoo.com. We’ll…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Kristina Marie Darling’s poetry collection, Fortress, is “image-rich” and wonderfully allusive. The setting is the famously decadent palace of Versailles. Like the film Marie Antoinette, “Darling’s book is simultaneously excess and desolation,” writes Sandra Marchetti. White spaces are used strategically…
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John Green Sends Books to Ferguson
Scott Bonner, the director of the Ferguson Municipal Public Library, answered questions on Reddit over the weekend and discussed the needs of the community in light of the ongoing protests. The Ferguson library has continued to function, even as schools…
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Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter
Tara Merrigan reviews Ugly Girls by Lindsay Hunter today in Rumpus Books.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m back! For real! NASA’s abandoned launch pads. (Seriously internet, am I that predictable?) This NY Times article on the significance of passwords is pretty great! Seriously everyone, bullying is just incomprehensibly awful. Here’s your Norwegian grass-based art for the…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #59: Not a Folk Singer
There is a lot to learn from Vashti Bunyan, therefore, about how to live a self-designed life, and how to be unapologetic and decisive about the habit of songwriting.
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More Sunday Links
I went to see Interstellar the other night, in need of three hours of sci-fi escapism from the terrestrial horrors of the last week, and while, frankly, it’s sort of an incomprehensible film, it not only served its purpose, it…
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Sunday Links
Amy Monticello, the author of this week’s Sunday Rumpus essay, wrote about her father’s illness and death in real time (here’s a representative essay of hers from The Nervous Breakdown) and I read the pieces while holding my breath. Lucky…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A New and Magical Life
When she becomes pregnant while grieving her newly dead father, Amy Monticello rejects the comforting notions she’s offered about completing the cycle of life.
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Notable NYC: 11/29–12/05
Saturday 11/29: Support your independent bookstores on Small Business Saturday. Monday 12/1: Daphne Merkin reads from her new collection of essays, The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontes, and the Importance of Handbags. BookCourt, 7 p.m., free.…
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Mexican Enough?
I’m from South Texas. I’ve taken Chicano literature courses. I’ve helped organize symposiums featuring Mexican and Mexican-American authors. But I had never heard of Amado Muro.