Attention All Radiohead Fans
Radiohead has just released a remix series of their latest album, King of Limbs (2011). The band has commissioned some of their favorite contemporary artists to remix tracks from the…
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Claire Rush
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A Features Editor at The Rumpus, Eileen G’Sell has contributed cultural criticism and poetry to Salon, VICE, Boston Review, "DIAGRAM, and the Denver Quarterly, among others. Her chapbooks are available from Dancing Girl and BOAAT Press, and her first full-length book of poems, Life After Rugby, will be published with Gold Wake Press in early 2018. You can find her on Twitter @Reckless_Edit.
What do you do, and how do you do it?
Blue Collar, White Collar, No Collar: Stories of Work is an anthology of short stories edited by Richard Ford that chronicle the ways in which our jobs–what we “do”–is inextricably…
With Every New Edition, A New Schema of Labeling
With the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) due for publication in May 2013, the classification of mental disorders and the…
“Famous for the Wrong Book”
Oftentimes an author’s most popular work is not actually his or her best, qualitatively speaking. What about those other under-the-radar books that don’t seem to get to get credit where…
Pump-up Poetry
How do you pump up before a game? Cheer? Chant? Talk some smack to the rival team? Or…do you read poetry? Bruno Biri, the coach of the French women’s national…
When Literature and Music Become One
Bringing together different artistic domains, authors merge and connect music with their words on the Book Notes series, featured on largehearted boy. Featured now is the playlist Reif Larsen created…
I’m on a Boat
Fear not, the saddening disappearance of independent bookstores is being countered by literature lovers all over the globe. The Book Barge, brainchild of Sarah Henshaw, is a canal boat turned…
In all Seriousness
We’ve been seeing a lot from Roxane Gay lately, on The Rumpus as well as in other literary blog realms. Ever wondered about her writing process? See what she has…
New Issue of La Petite Zine
Ever read a poem about a tampon? La Petite Zine prides itself on its quirky and innovative subject matter as an online literary journal that defines itself, through what it is…
An Internet Revolutionary
Julian Assange may have more sidekicks than we know of. You can read about how Bradley Manning, a gender-questioning soldier, came to subvert the American military’s authority over information regarding…
Next Up in the Tradition of Sadomasochistic Erotic Literature: Ariel Sands
Ariel Sands, the pseudonym of an internationally known nonfiction writer, is now exploring the fictional domain. Her first novel, Never the Face: A Story of Desire, explores sadomasochistic obsession through…
Struggling Poet? No Worries, There’s An App For That.
There are now approximately 718 different apps–“PortaPoet”, “Erotic Poems” or “Prose for Bros” just to name a couple– that come up when you search “poetry” on iTunes’ App Store. Nick…