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HORN! REVIEWS: Station Eleven
It's a masterpiece of structure, connecting our epoch inevitably to the next through artifacts and accounts...
Three Collections in Two Volumes by August Kleinzahler
Be stunned by Kleinzahler's poetry in the far ports of your body.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The election really did make you spend less time with family. Here are your 2018 California Academy of Science Big Picture winners to get you through. The new AP Stylebook…
Entertaining and Useful: A Conversation with Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb discusses her graphic memoir, Love That Bunch, drawing cancer, inadequacies of early work, and her burial wishes.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #138: Melissa Broder
"We have what we need inside us already, it's just a question of uncovering it, of remembering who we are again and again."
Readers Report: Mommy Dearest
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Mommy Dearest.”
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Glory be thy pineapple. Welcome to the age of robot dog funeral services. Very important stick bug/bird poop news. Here are your Japanese air conditioners for the day. We all…
Look at How the Bullets Have Missed
I praise everyone I can still touch, their warmth a violent protest against the cold weapons of death.
A Part of Me
Now my not wanting men to be front and center in my life capitalized sperm into a rare commodity. Empowered reproduction is largely a myth.
Notable San Francisco: 5/30–6/5
Literary events and readings in and around the Bay Area this week!