The Impossible Question: Vagrants & Accidentals by Kevin Craft
How are we to live when loss—personal, environmental, and political—is heaped upon loss?
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2017
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
First things first, if you haven’t yet you should read Obama’s response to the repeal bill. Literally impossible to get enough of diver fish friendships. So what animal will kill…
Ten Minutes of Motherhood: A Conversation with Ariel Levy
Ariel Levy on The Rules Do Not Apply, the illusion of control, and language’s inability to express grief.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #89: Isabel Greenberg
Isabel Greenberg is a London-based illustrator and writer. She studied illustration at the University of Brighton and has written for a variety of outlets including the Guardian, Nobrow Press, The National Trust, Seven…
The Rumpus Review of It Comes at Night
“It” does not even “come” in the traditional sense. These primal, atavistic qualities are with us all the time, lying dormant until the right situation coaxes them forth.
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…
Grief Is Not Regret: May Cause Love by Kassi Underwood
When women do not want a pregnancy, we may not experience the marvel and awe some claim are instant and “natural”—or, if we do, they are overshadowed by fear, and grief.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
At least the world is filled with Siberian mammoth tuskers. Why aren’t we all flirting with pneumatic tubes? Sometimes you find a very old sword in a bog you know?…
Peeping under the Goddamn Door: The Price of Empathy in S-Town
[F]or the first time, I really see the tradeoffs between privacy and honest-to-god, up-close empathy.
Next Letter in the Mail: Jia Tolentino
Our next Letter in the Mail comes from Jia Tolentino! Jia writes about a letter she received from a stranger in response to a piece she wrote, why she has yet to respond,…
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Samantha Irby
Samantha Irby discusses her new essay collection, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, all that comes along with writing about your life, and reading great horror books.
Notable San Francisco: 6/21–6/27
Wednesday 6/21: Cuban writer Achy Obejas (The Tower of the Antilles—our June book club pick!), currently Distinguished Visiting Writer at Mills College, reads from her forthcoming story collection. Free, 7 p.m., City Lights. Charif…