2017
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Arcadia Road by Thorpe Moeckel
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Thorpe Moeckel’s Arcadia Road today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Can’t believe I forgot to talk about Public Domain Day yesterday. Very important dinosaur baby gestation time news. Let’s all explore an abandoned Japanese island! While we’re here: let’s all buy this fake Quebec village! May 2017 be the year…
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The Rumpus Interview with Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay discusses her new collection, Difficult Women, the problem with whiteness as the default and the need for diverse representation, and life as a workaholic.
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FUNNY WOMEN #148: The Hindenburg Review Writers’ Workshop
Welcome to the Hindenburg Review Writers’ Workshop!
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Weekly Geekery
Are cheetahs sprinting toward extinction? Chinese-American writer Ken Liu brings “silkpunk” to science fiction. Self-publishing coaches—the new sexy in a Fifty Shades world.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores
Revolution Books in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood is exploiting Trump’s election to raise money for a fight against fascism. People in Japan value neighborhood bookstores so much that local governments are opening government-run stores in an effort to keep…
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Dictionary of Non-Notable Artists by Gregor Weichbrodt
James Ardis reviews Dictionary of Non-Notable Artists by Gregor Weichbrodt today in Rumpus Books.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Well, here we go. Start your year off right with some straight up movie theater porn. Here are those Mexican drug lord mausoleums you were asking about. These bullets that are lined with seeds feel like some kind of horrible…
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Market Researching My Desire
I noted the weirdness, and then filed it away until a time I might really consider the implications of wanting to bury someone’s stockings. I was lost in metaphor, which meant I was lost in everything.
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This Week in Books: Civilianized: A Young Veteran’s Memoir
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and wisdom, and they are an important part of our toolkit…
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The Real Fidel
In a flash nearly 200,000 Cuban refugees understood that we’d lost our homeland and had better get used to life en la Yuma. We packed for six weeks, and we stayed for six decades.
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14 Possibilities of Native Poetry
Natalie Diaz, Featured Guest Editor for the January edition of Connotation Press, has curated a portfolio titled “14 Possibilities of Native Poetry.” In her introduction she poses the question, What is Native poetry?, and then responds: What is Native poetry means there…