The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles on recording her new poetry record Aloha/irish trees, the relationship between poetry and comedy, and finding safety in social media.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #72: Laurie Sheck
Laurie Sheck is the author, most recently, of Island of the Mad, and A Monster’s Notes, a re-imagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A Pulitzer Prize finalist in poetry for The…
Safety Nets: On Seeing Movies with My Children
There’s no blueprint for any of this. If there were, I would have read it by now.
Notable Portland: 2/23–3/1
Thursday 2/23: Celebrate the launch of Mercy Strongheart’s debut novel, A Boy Named Trout, with a live reading complete with snacks and beverages. 20% of book sales will go to…
This Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a…
The Book of Endless Sleepovers by Henry Hoke
Allie Rowbottom reviews The Book of Endless Sleepovers by Henry Hoke today in Rumpus Books.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
is experiencing technical difficulties, we’ll return as soon as we can get everything sorted out. Stay angry.
Albums of Our Lives: Mister Loveless’s Grow Up
These golden years, precious and ephemeral, are falling in pieces at your feet everywhere you turn, and part of you thinks, let them. You almost wish, despite yourself, for this all to just go faster.
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Damian Duffy and John Jennings
Damian Duffy and John Jennings discuss their new graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's classic novel Kindred.
Notable San Francisco: 2/22–2/28
Wednesday 2/22: John Darnielle (Wolf in White Van) reads from his new novel, Universal Harvester. Free, 7:30 p.m., Booksmith. Roof Books presents David Buuck (Co-Founder and Editor of Tripwire), Jean…
This Week in Essays
For Guernica, Carmen Maria Machado writes about cultural myths around large women and fighting to take up space with her body and her mind. Woe be to those who buy the Peggy…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Infiltrating the Klan at their (previous) peak. No thank you please: look at this horrifying ancient worm. Shocking news: LA has very bad traffic. Here’s your unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright…