What’s New with Rick Moody
Identitytheory.com has posted an interview with Rumpus music guru and all-around literary genius Rick Moody. The Q&A, conducted by Meg White (no, not THAT Meg White), delves into the vortex…
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A Remembrance of Frank McCourt
"Sit back. I'm going to tell you a story," Frank said in his brogue, looking into the distance like a Homerian epic-teller. "Don't you ever dare steal it."
Morning Coffee
Carnivorous Mexican squids, mysteriously leaving their home waters, have been attacking divers off the coast of San Diego. There is a parable here but I’m having trouble finding it. Have…
Wallace Shawn On Writing About Sex
“Various people who have liked me or cared about me — people who have believed in my promise as a writer — have hinted to me at various times in…
When The Rent’s Due Soon
“After opening my post on many mornings, I indulge in a few minutes of anguish and muted screams, then devote the next hour or more, if necessary, to tackling the…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #19
I will remind you that you were not born into this world to suffer. Nobody is, actually.
Introducing Emily Hahn
“Whenever I think of the Christmas season I spent in the eastern reaches of the Belgian Congo, in 1932, I experience a floating sense of unreality. A number of questions…
By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld
PART I: WHY RUMSFELD, WHY THIS BOOK? Donald Rumsfeld is my grandmother.
David Cronenberg’s First Feature Film
I watch movies so people will show me the things that make me flinch, question myself, curse the heavens, and want to enroll in primal scream therapy. I don’t think…
Immigrants Make For Safe Cities
“If you want to find a safe city, first determine the size of the immigrant population,” says Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. “If the immigrant community…
How to Write Sex Scenes: The 12-Step Program
Give us the reddened stubble in the crease of a debutante’s groin, or the minute trembling of a banker’s underlip.
The Rumpus Partly Visual Interview with Hilary Pecis and Elyse Mallouk
At what point does the viewer start seducing the artwork?