Coming Soon: The Tribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is one of the most glamorous film events to happen this side of Park City. From April 22 – May 2, the festival will pitch its…
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National Poetry Month at The Rumpus
I like to think that April was named National Poetry Month because it was inspired by the success of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, and April was next…
Morning Coffee
It is hard to imagine any better way to start a day than with pictures of sleeping bugs covered in rain. I am linking to this because it is called…
The Rumpus Interview with Brad Watson
The late, great Barry Hannah, writing about The Heaven of Mercury, described Watson’s writing as a “sort of calm wail” and said, “Only the Irish geniuses wrote like this.”
Scarface Success
The fact that the “Scarface School Play,” which we posted yesterday as a video interruption, was staged (no pun intended) should come as no surprise (plus, staged or not, those…
Baseball, Writing, and Life
In a recent interview with Cousins Reading Series, author (and Rumpus Contributor) Adam Gallari states “I think that the greatest analogy between baseball and writing, or even life for that…
We Are Never as Beautiful as We Are Now
“I think that the greatest analogy between baseball and writing, or even life, is that the game is designed for its players to fail.”
Nancy Smith: The Last Book I Loved, Willful Creatures
When I was a kid I would wander down the block, four houses over, to visit our neighborhood “grandma,” Mrs. Koski. At her house I was treated to Cheetos and…
Sassy Gay Friend: Othello
Things would’ve gone better for Desdemona if only she’d had a Gay Sassy Friend.
RUMPUS RADIO #1: Interview with K.Flay
Introducing the Rumpus—now in audio! What is your pun threshold? Are you ready for a pun battle between K.Flay and the International Pun Champion, Joe Sabia?
“Where I come from, nobody can afford to buy books.”
John Edgar Wideman, author of Brothers and Keepers, not to mention a National Book Award finalist, winner of two PEN/Faulkner awards, and the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, has…