Written on the City
Conceptual artist and poet Jenny Holzer is known for her massive projections of poetry and political aphorisms across urban buildings around the world. Her words, cast in ephemeral light, slide…
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Small-Town Gothic
Keith Lee Morris’s new novel exposes the hidden desires and fears of the local darts champions.
Shara Lessley: A Poem I Love
Editors Note: In honor of National Poetry Month, The Rumpus has asked writers to provide us with poems they love, and the reasons why. We’re also including links to these…
Kevin Sampsell: The Last Book I Loved, Another Bullshit Night In Suck City
I’d been hearing about Another Bullshit Night in Suck City since it came out a couple years ago, but late last year, after finishing my own memoir, I finally got…
Field of Realities: The Rumpus Review of Sugar
There are few sadder places on Earth than a minor league baseball stadium.
Be Knocked Flat
Poetry readings are notorious for putting audiences to sleep. Which is why Poems Out Loud‘s devotion to the notion of experiencing poetry read aloud—and read well—is so thrilling. The site…
Fifty Years into Raymond Chandler’s Big Sleep, Marlowe Still Speaks
Such is the subject of some fine summarizing in this week’s LA Weekly, which deserves ongoing props for going down with a fight and continuing to publish worthy writing on…
Best American Nonrequired Blog
The Best American Nonrequired Reading, edited by Dave Eggers, is compiled by a team of high school students who spend the year reading everything they can get their hands on.…
The Political is the Personal
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s new memoir about life in the Socialist Workers Party shows the effects of political idealism on a child’s upbringing
Morning Coffee
Sometimes life is really about the simple pleasures. For example: pictures of Scandinavians hiding. SelfControl, a program that blocks email and specific websites for a predetermined period of time so…