Album of the Week: Peter Oren’s Anthropocene
"Should we all write protest songs? Only if that’s what’s on your mind. I can’t help but write political songs."
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2017
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Kamilah Aisha Moon
Kamilah Aisha Moon discusses her new collection, Starshine & Clay, the power of naming, and the connection between creation and trauma.
Notable Philadelphia: 11/14–11/20
Literary events and readings in and around Philadelphia this week!
This Week in Indie Bookstores
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What is life but an isolated Arctic meteorologist? Are people REALLY better than robots in the first place? Here’s your daily supply of retrofuturism. Here’s your daily supply of disused…
Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Gayle Brandeis’s The Art of Misdiagnosis
After my mom hangs herself, I become Nancy Drew. I am looking for clues, for evidence. Answers.
Breaking Through: Gayle Brandeis Discusses The Art of Misdiagnosis
Gayle Brandeis discusses her memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis, out today from Beacon Press.
What We’re Reading in December!
How do you draw an affair? A family? Can a Venn diagram show the ways overlaps turn into absences, tree rings tell us what happens when mothers leave?
Endless Preparation: Apples and Women’s Work
It makes sense to me that Johnny Appleseed, a man, would travel God's earth spreading his profligate seed. And then women are doomed to their lives trying to make that seed into something useful.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Guess it’s time for us all to take a holiday in a Soviet sanatorium. Or maybe we should take a trip along the mother road. More on the future of…
What Do I Do With My Fear?: A Conversation with Megan Stielstra
Megan Stielstra discusses her new essay collection, The Wrong Way to Save Your Life, fear, privilege, and the intersection of politics and everyday life.