Diamonds & Rust: Let’s Revel in This Messy Splendor
Refusing to be tragic, and eventually, within the deep lost, the deepest I’ve known, comes rebirth.
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Adam Swanson is an editor and writer whose work has appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine; Khôra; Washington Post; Lambda Literary Review; and elsewhere. He’s received fellowships from Writing by Writers, Lambda Literary, and the Creative Writing Program at Emerson College. Adam is a Pushcart Prize nominee and won the 2022 San Juan Residency by Writing by Writers. After graduating from Western Kentucky University, he obtained a master’s degree in public policy from George Mason University. In 2018, Adam completed George Washington University’s LGBT Health Policy & Practice Graduate Certificate Program, where he won the AIDS Healthcare Foundation student award. He is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate at Emerson College. More at www.adamswanson.net.
The Rumpus Interview with Kathleen Hanna
Frontwoman of seminal '90s punk band Bikini Kill, experimental multimedia group Le Tigre, and now The Julie Ruin, Kathleen Hanna talks about how her music is about herself, now more than ever, and what it's like to be considered an iconic leader of the Riot Grrrl movement.
Diamonds and Rust: Summer Music Fests, Small Luxuries, and the Open Road
Those rare flashes of vivid scenes burned in my memory, which create the mythos for my five-day adventure journeying to Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival 2013.
Rumpus Video Premiere & Interview with Golden Suits
I think the part that gets me most excited is being inspired for a song by something that's outside of music.
Rumpus Music Editor Heads to Pitchfork Music Festival
I’m on my way to the 2013 Pitchfork Music Festival, which kicks off tomorrow in Chicago’s Union Park and runs through Sunday.
The Rumpus Interview with Dessa
There are some important strands of humanity that I think do unite us, and I think stories are a powerful way of showcasing those universals or those commonalities.
The Rumpus Interview with Dungeonesse
I think writing a great, catchy pop song that is transcendent and universal and touches people is one of the hardest things in the world to do.
The Rumpus Interview with Karl Briedrick of Speck Mountain
Lyrically, it’s about longing for something to change, longing for something to happen within the context of a relationship where it hasn’t felt like anything’s been happening for a long time.
Diamonds and Rust: Nostalgia, Form, and Noise
There’s always that longing to say everything and nothing at once, that yearning for the moment I forget I am myself.
Sharon Van Etten Curates a Night at Cameo Gallery
If the announced killer line-up isn't enticing enough, there's also a "very special guest" on the bill.
An Oxford American Update
Rumpus Essays Editor Roxane Gay recently posted about the troubling situation at the Oxford American in which Mark Smirnoff, the founding editor of the Oxford American, and managing editor Carol…
Pussy Riot Link Round-Up
Three women of the feminist punk collective Pussy Riot are on trial in Russia for hooliganism, which carries a charge up to seven years in prison, following their arrest in March…