Genius or Madness: Patrick Langley’s The Variations
Like a piece of music or genetic code, the gift changes over time and according to who is experiencing it. Langley’s novel traces the shifts.
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The Other Home I Found is in the Art Itself: A Conversation with Richard Blanco
. . . it’s the poet or artist’s job to open up a new dialogue, to ask questions that aren’t being asked
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Alexa Luborsky
Girl A maintains the story of Girl B about a brother, a father, a tree, and
a kiss. / The story became the thirst for a story, while the river watched.
Sustaining Forces When Splintering: A Conversation with Leslie Jamison
All of life is simultaneity for everyone. We’re all inside of many different tracks of experience at once.
Voices on Addiction: Learning to Steal
My clothes hung, though, I called it draping. I called it fashion.
Punctuating pseudo-realities: Daniel Lefferts’s Ways and Means
This is a world in which the “ways and means” of the novel’s title are no sure thing, in which the relationship of the protagonists to the money they have (or don’t have) easily exceeds tangible causality.
Rumpus Original Fiction: We Are the Titanic
We float in the pool and stare at the clouds. My sister says Jack. I say Rose, like a weird game of Marco Polo.
Weighing the Risk of Love: A Conversation with Phillip B. Williams
I want my readers to get whatever comes to their hearts and minds as they read the novel.
What to Read When the World Is Run by Billionaires
If we can’t beat them—and the deck is stacked heavily against us—the least we can do is try to understand them as best we can.
Out of the Silence Comes the Form: A Conversation with Linnea Axelsson
An oral tradition is something you can add to a story that already exists, and you can now retell in a way.
The Potential Literature of Life: Alphabetical Diaries by Sheila Heti
Stop talking to anyone, everyone, about your new projects—just be quiet and think.