Happy Birthday Mr. President?
We think not! George Washington’s birthday is actually on February 22nd but thanks to some decisions by the people in charge, we will probably never celebrate the man’s actual birthday…
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Ashley Perez
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Ashley Perez lives, writes, and causes trouble in Los Angeles. She has a strong affinity for tattoos, otters, cat mystery books, and actual cats, but has mixed feelings about pants. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She runs the literary site Arts Collide and does work of all varieties for Women Who Submit, Entropy, Jaded Ibis Press, and Why There Are Words. You can find her on Twitter at @ArtsCollide.
Los Angeles Love Through Unique Eyes
Los Angeles native, Michael Garcia writes about his love and fear for the city he grew up in. Like the sailor kissing a stranger at the V-J Day parade, Buzz Aldrin hop-scotching…
Writers Talk About Mental Health
Remember Jacqui Morton’s recent amazing Rumpus essay? Well she is being interviewed over at The Rejectionist (run by Rumpus contributor Sarah McCarry!) about mental health, writing, and life. “Anyhow! Writing was…
Literary Friendships
Rumpus interviews editor Rebecca Rubenstein has an awesome interview with Cheryl Strayed (a.k.a. Dear Sugar), Lidia Yuknavitch, and Suzy Vitello at BuzzFeed Books. They discuss how they make and sustain…
Ask a question to “Dear Life”
Rumpus contributor Jennifer Pastiloff has a wonderful site called The Manifest Station. After being deluged with life questions from readers, she decided to start a feature (smartly) called “Dear Life”.…
Joyce Carol Oates Makes A Wonderland Woman
Rumpus contributor Melissa Chadburn has a new essay at over at Buzzfeed. In it she talks about how Joyce Carol Oates’s The Wonderland Quartet provided her with the counter-narrative she needed…
Rumpus Contributors Are Rocking the Kirkus Review!
Getting a postive Kirkus review is a big deal, and Rumpus editors are rocking it with their forthcoming releases.
A Portrait of Bernard Cooper
In a recent post at the LA Times, book critic David L. Ulin writes about Bernard Cooper’s forthcoming memoir, “My Avant-Garde Education.” Ulin also gives a remarkable portrait of Cooper as…
A Unique Way of Getting Down With Gertrude Stein
Rumpus assistant editor Lauren O’Neal interviews Michelle Sutherland about her opera/musical/self described “event” Gertrude Stein SAINTS over at the Hairpin. They talk about the role of men in the play,…
A New Interview with Kyle Minor
Over at The Believer Logger, Matt Bell conducts a wonderful interview with Kyle Minor. There is a wonderful bit in here about work ethic: “What I hope, eventually, is that I can…
Can We Separate The Art From The Artist?
“The problem with art is, because we love it so much, we put the artists who created it on pedestals and we believe they cannot fail because, in some corner…
The Freedom to Fail
Recording artist Moby writes over at The Guardian about why he needed to leave New York and come to Los Angeles for his art. Los Angles gave him the room…