The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #95: Gabe Habash
Gabe Habash’s Stephen Florida is a three-hundred page manic unraveling of the titular Stephen’s psyche, told over the course of one season of collegiate wrestling. In the opening pages, Stephen…
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Lower Orbits: Remembering Gherman Titov
His story is more than just a story about space, but also a story about history and how it moves. How time and space bend, burn, warp, and ignore.
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…
Mimesis of Girlhood in Three Acts featuring Bright Eyes
In those days, it was not uncommon for me to dream about having sex with Matt Damon and wake from those dreams convinced it was possible.
Our Enraging, Beautiful, Hungry Bodies
The body is a complicated thing, not only in the way it is perceived by others but also in the way we perceive it ourselves.
Next Letter in the Mail: Amy Fusselman
Our next Letter in the Mail comes from author Amy Fusselman! Amy writes to us about an auction at her son’s school, the endless food choices at Twitter HQ, meeting the…
All of Our Pre-Existing Conditions
We admit ourselves to the list of conditions, confess to the hospitals we’ve entered over the years. Through my glowing phone screen the body pokes through.
Notable San Francisco: 8/2–8/8
Wednesday 8/2: San Francisco’s current Poet Laureate (its seventh), Kim Shuck, will present one of her first readings in that capacity (taking over from Laureate #6, Alejandro Murguia). Shuck’s previous honors…
This Week in Essays
Alexandra Wuest tackles grief, art, and the insights solitude can offer over at Fanzine. For Real Life, Eleanor Penny asks the big questions about and considers the implications of the creation of an artificial womb.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Start your day weeping at Patti’s Smith’s words for her buddy Sam Shepard. Now cheer up with some talk about the co-evolution of humans and dogs. Modernist brickwork of the…
Empathy Is Cheap: A Conversation with Brandon Harris
Brandon Harris discusses his memoir Making Rent in Bed-Stuy, gentrification in New York City and Brooklyn, the homogenization of American cities by corporate America, and whiteness of film culture.
Album of the Week: Vic Mensa’s The Autobiography
At only twenty-four, Vic Mensa is already an established member of the Chicago music scene and a social justice activist—from protesting his hometown police department after the shooting of shooting…