Fantasy Football for Poets: Week Seven
“I told him, if this doesn’t work, I’m going to kick your ass. I told him that because he’s going too far. He thinks he knows more than me, but he doesn’t."
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J. Ryan Stradal
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J. Ryan Stradal is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel Kitchens of the Great Midwest and the forthcoming The Lager Queen of Minnesota. His shorter writing has appeared in Hobart, the Wall Street Journal, Granta, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Charles Blackstone
At the launch of his new novel, Vintage Attraction, the multi-talented Managing Editor of Bookslut sits down, over a figurative glass of fine wine, to spill his passions.
Fantasy Football for Poets: Week Six
When he retires at the end of the year, he’ll be remembered as one of the best tight ends in NFL history, and as a man whose heart, athletic skills, and bilingual outreach have made him a hero to Spanish-speaking football fans around the world.
Fantasy Football for Poets: Week Five
Being unable to play his favorite instrument anymore broke his heart, but while his injured hand couldn’t perform the delicate gesticulations of a violinist, it was not a hindrance in the blunt-force job of offensive lineman.
Fantasy Football for Poets: Week Four
Because a literary magazine definitely needs a Fantasy Football series.
Fantasy Football For Poets: Week 3
Why wouldn't we have a fantasy football column on a literary website?
The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Cecil Castellucci
Cecil Castellucci, perhaps the most wonderfully prolific and brazenly genre-busting author in Los Angeles, has worn many hats in a celebrated life in the arts
A Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football (2013 Edition)
If you’ve seen a Super Bowl before, everything you think you hate about the event is probably true and hasn’t changed.
Saturday Special: The Rumpus Catches Up with Ann Friedman
The former Executive Editor of GOOD and current curator of LadyJournos! is one of our generation’s most intelligent, insightful, and often funniest voices.
A Super Bowl Preview For People Who Don’t Know Football (2012 Edition)
If Hollywood could cast the Super Bowl teams, it wouldn’t choose most of the guys who make up the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. It also couldn’t…
On This Presidents’ Day: A Brief History of Presidential Sex
A special holiday history lesson from The Rumpus:
A Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football
Once a year, an awful lot of people are forced to pretend to care about football.