Branching Stories on the Web
If you loved Choose Your Own Adventure stories as a kid and still wonder where all that branching narrative magic went, you might want to check out ADJUNCT by Ishmael…
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Amy Letter
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Amy Letter is a writer and artist whose work has appeared in PANK, Puerto Del Sol, Quarterly West, and other journals and magazines. She is the Digital / Electronic / New Media Literature Editor at the Rumpus and assistant professor of Fiction and New Media at Drake University.
Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
Amy Letter reviews Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher today in Rumpus Books.
Gruesome Spectacles by Austin Sarat
We the People of the United States do not wish to meet or exceed the depravity of those we deem too depraved to live. We just want to kill them. We want to have our death penalty and be good people, too.
The Isle of Youth by Laura van den Berg
Amy Letter reviews Laura van den Berg's THE ISLE OF YOUTH today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
Open the Pod Bay Doors, MAL: The Rumpus Interview with Lori Emerson
"I do think that diagnosing and fixing problems with our machines that are twenty or even thirty years old is similar to fixing an old VW Bug—the architecture is simple enough and open enough that, given enough spare parts, there's almost always a way to fix them."
An Occupy Roundup, Thanksgiving/Black Friday Edition
The American Occupation of America received less attention this week as the country (in my dad’s words) “celebrated the near-genocide of the inhabitants of this hemisphere through the killing and…
An Occupy Roundup
Yesterday was Veterans Day and the American Occupation of America was focused on its members who have served in the armed forces. In the hot front city of Oakland, Scott…
An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Latest from the American Occupation of America: The Oakland Occupation is the hot front in the struggle against Corporate Exploitation: an attack by the police that injured Iraq vet Scott…
The Rumpus Original Combo with Ana Menendez
"As I writer, I dream of readers who approach a book with the same kind of engagement that went into the writing."
The Scarlet “SW” for Sex Worker
I first heard about the U of New Mexico controversy via Facebook, when Joy Harjo left a status update reporting that she’d had to quit her job because the university…
The Story Behind the Furry
Today we ran an interview with Kilcodo, a furry who makes her living making full-body fursuits for others, by Amy Letter. Here Amy tells the compelling story behind the interview:…
Oh So Furry: The Rumpus Interview with Kilcodo
Kilcodo is a friend of mine; she makes a living making full-body fursuits for other furries. She also moonlights as a lemur. The other night she let me interview her,…