Caroline Kangas calls both Seattle and San Francisco home (though she currently resides in the latter). She recently received a mouthful of a liberal arts degree from the University of San Francisco and can be found selling pirate supplies at 826 Valencia or wandering the streets with her diva of a french bulldog, Elle.
To sacrifice the life of a child is to honor the god Moloch. Garry Wills, at the New York Review of Books Blog unearths America’s not-so-secret shrines to Moloch: “The…
Two months ago, Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay said, “hey, when’s it my turn?” Now, her turn has come. Congratulations to Roxane on her two book deals. We can’t wait to read…
Rumpus columnist Steve Almond reviews Chris Ware’s Building Stories for The New Republic. As a self-proclaimed nitwitted graphic novel critic with no qualifications, Almond beautifully reviews not only the content of Building Stories…
“This isn’t an easy topic, but that’s the beauty of muppets. They can do things that even some grownups can’t.” Tumblr Storyboard and TIME showcase the process of bringing touchy…
Original short story from the new fiction section at Tablet. Joshua Cohen’s “Fat” tells of adventures in New York City; most notably rushing to be home by dark on Friday…
Chloe Caldwell, Rumpus contributor and author of the essay collection Legs Get Led Astray, comes out with “The New Age Camp,” a new e-book from Thought Catalog. Get ready for “a…
Ernest Hemingway fell in love with polydactyl (six-toed) cats after he was given one by a ship’s captain. Now the descendants of his cats live free on the property of his former…
“Had we been lied to, not only about pesticides, but about progress, and development, and discovery, and the whole ball of wax?” In The Guardian, Margaret Atwood reminds us of the…
Today is the birthday of the famous recluse who once wrote: Birthday of but a single pang That there are less to come — Afflictive is the Adjective But affluent…
Glasses, extra light wheelchairs, satellite technology, and even moon boot technology in KangaROOs. But even more impressive is NASA’s ability to get Gloria Steinem and Charlton Heston in the same…
The A.V. Club reviews recent Rumpus Book Club pick Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins. Reviewer Ellen Wernecke says: “The Middlesteins calls back to Richard Ford’s untidy domestic dramas, which spill out into the…
In their article “Twelve for ’12,” The New York Times gives love to Wild and Dear Sugar. Ala the twelve days of Christmas, Cheryl is number five and wearing five golden rings.…