The Miracle Bowl
Praise the family that tethers me. Praise the well-used kitchen utensils and scoured mixing bowls and butter knives, thick slabs of jelly on the bread.
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2017
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s Monday so let’s just enjoy some Japanese grain elevators and VHS box art. Hey look at this dang ice age cavern discovered under Montreal! This surgeon wants to connect…
Our Own Bodies: A Conversation with JoAnna Novak
JoAnna Novak discusses her novel, I Must Have You, eating disorders, and writing characters that challenge our expectations of how women should behave.
Notable Twin Cities: 12/3–12/9
Literary events and readings in and around the Twin Cities this week!
What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus editors share their favorite books to gift to friends and family, from recent 2017 releases to longtime literary loves.
HORN! REVIEWS: Her Body and Other Parties
Sounds come from just outside—and then just outside that.
Yes, and: Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews
Matthews is a poet of multivalent ways and hows, an artist at home in the riddle of refusal.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Another day another over 200 pterosaur eggs found. Remembering the time four lesbian activists invaded the BBC. Let’s all take a trip back to 1940s Sao Paulo. Let’s all take…
Call and Response: A Conversation with Hannah Tinti
Hannah Tinti discusses how The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley came into being, the formation of its characters, and how twelve scars and the celestial heavens help give this book structure and heft.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #112: Roz Chast
" I think when you really love something, you notice the minutiae. It’s partly how you make something your own."