2015
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today will be our last Morning Coffee of the year; thank you for being here as always. You mean the world to me, you really do. Today seems like a good day to talk about how weird and dangerous mistletoe…
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The Rumpus Interview with Janice Erlbaum
Janice Erlbaum talks about her new novel, I, Liar, how writing memoir compares to writing fiction, homelessness in America, and Munchausen syndrome and Borderline Personality Disorder.
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Princess Leia: Feminist Hero
Star Wars is a bit more pop-culture-y than we tend to do around here, but I can’t help but share this piece from Emily Hauser on why we should stop talking about “Slave Leia” (who’s only in that costume for three minutes) and…
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The Sound of Silence
So while silence can most certainly be boring, unsettling, unbearable, it can just as certainly be an aid to concentration and thus free the imagination. It can quiet the mind and open it to divine influences. This seems to depend on…
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Celebrating Donuts
At the Paris Review Daily, Sadie Stein writes a reflection on Mayflower donuts and optimism: Usually, seeing records of defunct restaurants fills me with melancholy. Each one looks so perfect, so glamorous, so wholesome, so wholly desirable. And yet Mayflower Donuts,…
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Killer Mike Chats with Bernie Sanders
The rapper has made clear his admiration for the presidential candidate before, but the recent hour-long conversation between Killer Mike and Bernie Sanders is more than a token of mutual respect—the discussion stands on its own right as a compelling…
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You Write Like A Girl, Knausgaard
Domestic duties are regarded as feminine in popular culture. Karl Ove Knausgaard’s enormous three volume tome, My Struggle, is full of descriptions of domesticity, and he has been showered with highbrow literary praise for them. But would the same be…
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Spotlight: “Lumbersexual Builds a Bed” by Colleen Kolba
“Lumbersexuals Builds a Bed” is the first in a series of mini-comics that explore character construction through different “types” of people in society.”
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Song of the Day: “Creep”
An important part of Prince’s artistic image has relied upon mystery—the mystery of his genius is comprised of equal parts sexuality and technical prowess. But there is another component to it, and that is Prince’s ironclad policy against the free…
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It’s Not Too Late to Give the Gift of Rumpus!
This holiday season, give the gift of The Rumpus. We have plenty of holiday gift options for the well-read optimist or literary child in your life, and we’re shipping everything priority to make sure it gets to you and your loved ones…
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Photographing Crime
It’s a paradox that many of the show’s images are strangely striking even if the crimes they represent are horrifying. Joseph Stalin had at least 750,000 executed between 1937 and 1938. A photographer made a portrait before each execution, shooting…
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The Importance of Leaving Book Reviews
Over at the Huffington Post, Christina Larmer makes the case for all readers to leave reviews if they want to support the authors they love: If you can find a minute—and that’s all it takes, I promise you—please jot a…