October 2016
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A Terrible Question with No Satisfactory Answer
For better or worse, poetry is now the only thing he likes to do. Even with the crying and the hopeless odds. Over at The Point, O.T. Marod writes about the crippling existential despair inherent in the question, “How should…
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Awful Trump Story #983674
Surprise, surprise, another horrible Trump story has surfaced: Lil Jon has spoken out about the time that the presidential candidate kept calling him “Uncle Tom” on Celebrity Apprentice. Apparently, even after a series of people explained why the term “Uncle Tom”…
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In Sickness and Friendship and Jane Austen
Long before Curtis Sittenfeld was a New York Times bestselling author (Eligible), she was friends with Sam Park (This Burns My Heart). And they’re still friends: in an essay for the New Yorker, Sittenfeld chronicles their decades-long platonic romance, from early days collaborating…
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New Readers Report Theme: “Harvest”
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 “Harvest.” Please send your submissions, maximum 400 words, to Susan Clements, silentjoy2001 AT yahoo.com. We’ll…
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Dreams, Manifestos, and What Times Are Best for Writing
For Playboy, Alexandra Kleeman (You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine) interviews Colin Winnette. On writing his most recent novel Haints Stay, Winnette says his process was like “spending a year or so in my own private Western.” On his short…
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Notable Los Angeles: 10/17–10/23
Monday 10/17: Book Soup presents An Evening with Grace Bonney and her new book, In the Company of Women. Featuring Hope and Lily Stockman, Joy Cho, Tanya Aguiniga, Bethany Yellowtail, Shadi Petoski, Roxane Gay, and Angelica Ross. 7:30 p.m. at…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Interview, Michaelsun Stonesweat Knapp and Tommy Pico discuss Pico’s book-length poem, IRL, and its themes of temporality, Indiginous identity, and lyrical humor. IRL (which stands for ‘in real life’) reflects a “terrifying” and cathartic creative process in which Pico…
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Arendt on Trump
Evil is not one man, but rather the process of normalization via which exclusion, deportation, and finally extermination are all rendered morally justifiable. At Lit Hub, Rafia Zakaria writes an essay about Donald Trump’s rampant Islamophobia and how it can be…
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Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger
Amanda DeMarco reviews Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Léger today in Rumpus Books.
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This Land Is Their Land
In Brooklyn Magazine’s “The Musical Map of the United States,” writers create a soundtrack of place association. The 50+ essays on songs and their states are sweet and sad and funny, but always specific. Sleeper hits like Emily Hilleren’s “The…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
In search of a true blue M&M. For far too long we have been denied twin London Bridges. And while we’re on it, why DOESN’T the Statue of Liberty have a glowing wrist watch? When things go down, let’s all…
