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On May 1st I will be stepping away from the position of managing editor at The Rumpus. I will remain a co-owner and, of course, a member of The Rumpus’s ever-growing family of writers and editors. My four years at The Rumpus have been some of the most fulfilling years of my life. I started working […]
...moreCherry Bomb Books (a forthcoming imprint of Bona Fide Books) is seeking writers for a nonfiction collection tentatively titled Get Out of My Crotch, a response to the current legislation and language concerning women’s health, including reproductive health but also their general health and well-being. Contributors include Roxane Gay, Katha Pollitt, Lola McClure (author of […]
...more“It’s an LG-something. It flips. Lately, though, it’s a little sad because the flipping mechanism has gotten very loose so it’s more like a flap-phone. It just dangles out there.” That’s Eli Horowitz, “luddite and creator of a new digital literary app,” describing his cell phone in this BuzzFeed piece about his new project: The […]
...more“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.” Anderson Cooper comes out. (Hooray!)
...moreWe’re going to take it easy today, but we’ve still got some great pieces for y’all. Don’t miss “OG Dad #6” from Jerry Stahl, or this heartbreaking illustrated story by artist Jason Novak. See you tomorrow!
...more“I had a cartoon in my high school newspaper magazine. Terrible, terrible shit.” A sneak preview of The Comics Journal’s interview with Maurice Sendak.
...more“It’s just very hard when you write something that young and it becomes that successful, for reasons of luck, or having the right timing or the right execution. I was 35, and now, at 57, I hear someone mention that book virtually once a day. It was not the best book I ever wrote.” Mother […]
...moreHORN! REVIEWS: Wild Kevin Thomas reviews our March Rumpus Book Club selection, Cheryl Strayed’s WILD, Rumpus-Comics style. [Sidenote: We believe this is the best review to date of Cheryl’s wildly (see what we did there?) successful book. Granted, we’re biased, but whose beliefs aren’t?]
...moreAn oldie but a goodie: Nick Cave on why he won’t appear in a Gap commercial. (via @LettersOfNote)
...more“It takes me a while to recognize beauty; that’s why, as a writer, I edit so compulsively.” Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes about his backpack (you’ll see).
...more“Yet for Wallace, tennis entails intense aloneness, standing seventy-eight feet away from one’s opponent, warring within and against one’s own brain. Tennis represents an entirely individual struggle to wrest control from the mind: to be at once fully conscious of oneself and yet able to stop thinking.” A Paris Review essay by A-J Aronstein about […]
...moreOh no! It’s the chimpanzee police! When I am rich, I too will have a shark-filled atrium. The Japan Animals’ School. Who is @MCBangarang?
...moreWe’ve posted a new Dear Sugar! Hooray! Today’s column is the first to go live since it was announced that Sugar is, in fact, author Cheryl Strayed. As a celebration we’re revealing the full shot that the usual Sugar photo is cropped from. Yes, those hands holding snow (yes, it’s snow, not sugar) we’re all […]
...moreDirector and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott has been spotted (proudly sporting his Rumpus tattoo) alongside actress Ashley Hinshaw in Berlin. Elliott and Hinshaw are both in Germany for the international premier of Cherry. Click here to learn more about the film.
...moreWe are thrilled to announce (but also sad, if you didn’t get your ticket yet) that tonight’s Sugar Party at the Verdi Club has sold out. Details on Sugar’s NYC party will be coming soon.
...moreThe FBI has released a 191-page file on Apple founder Steve Jobs. You can learn more, without sifting through the giant file, here.
...more“Just like they did last year, The Rumpus shares some of the stories of the players participating in the Super Bowl in a way that isn’t as syrupy as Bob Costas.” Over at Internet-powerhouse kottke.org Jason gives some love to J. Ryan Stradal’s “A Super Bowl Preview For People Who Don’t Know Football,” which we […]
...more“Wislawa Szymborska, a gentle and reclusive Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Wednesday in Krakow, Poland. She was 88.” Learn more about Szymborska’s life and achievements here.
...moreWell would you look at that, our pals over at McSweeney’s have a snazzy new (online) store.
...moreOn Sunday we published “Ten Reasons Not to Sleep with a Poet,” but today poets are striking back in the comments section (led no doubt by our pals over at The Poetry Foundation) and vocally defending why you should bed a bard. So, what do you think? Sex with sonnetists, or do you practice abstinence […]
...moreToday we posted stills from Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s forthcoming film, Cherry. Are you curious to learn more about the movie? Click here.
...more“I got this urge to get back to sending paper letters, and I also knew a lot of authors who I knew would be really excited about it.” The Today Show website gives some love to Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s latest artistic proposition, Letters in the Mail. (The article also warns its readers that some […]
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