The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #103: Andrew Battershill
Picture the French Surrealists recast as mobsters running a crime ring and you have the premise for Batterhill’s story.
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David Breithaupt
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David lives in central Ohio and works for a sports newspaper. He is a regular contributor to Nervous Breakdown and Andrei Codrescu's Exquisite Corpse.
The Rumpus Interview with Clarence Major
Clarence Major discusses his new collection Chicago Heat and Other Stories, the artist's role in politics, Donald Trump and race relations, and Paris in the good old days.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #68: David Kukoff
“To read,” wrote E.M. Cioran, “is to let someone else do the work for you.” Indeed, David Kukoff has done extensive footwork collecting an array of varied experiences to give…
How to Dinner Party Like Dalí
From entre-plats to oral sex in three easy steps! As the iconic artist’s opulent cookbook Les Dîners de Gala is reprinted by Taschen, we assess what it really takes to…
How Books Saved Mary Oliver’s Life
Feeling anxious about today’s election? Brain Pickings gives us a look at how writer Mary Oliver copes when times are tough: The second world—the world of literature—offered me, besides the pleasures…
Alors, Those French Smell So Good
Osman Ahmed sat down with fragrance maker Timothy Hahn for AnOther.com to discuss his latest installment of literary-inspired luxuries: When Han created a scent inspired by Simone de Beauvoir’s 1938…
Never Too Early for Next Year
The power of yarn compels you! The power of yarn compels you! The power of yarn compels you! With Halloween being about the coolest holiday we see all year, you…
Guns Don’t Kill People, Poets Do
Verlaine bought the 7mm six-shooter in Brussels on the morning of 10 July 1873, determined to put an end to a torrid two-year affair with his teenage lover. The gun…
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #55: Donald Ray Pollock
Donald Ray Pollock has been steadily serving up plates of mild horror since his first book of short stories, Knockemstiff, appeared in 2008. Pollock followed the explosion of Knockemstiff with…
The Other John Reed
Writer John Reed is a genre buster. His new book, Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems, is a collection of sonnets about love scenarios mostly gone amok, which he…
The Life and Times of Black Clock Magazine
The legendary Black Clock has been retired. At Lit Hub, novelist Bruce Bauman, author most recently of Broken Sleep, recounts the magazine’s history in a conversation with Jeff VanderMeer: From the very…
Check out the Latest Trends In “Trashion
Like a perverse turtle, Rob Greenfield wears his trash on his back: Sandwiched between heavy duty plastic sheeting is every wrapper, bag, tissue and twisty tie the environmental activist has…