The Rumpus Interview with Volodya
Freedom Porn administrator and amateur performer Volodya discusses running an anarcho-porn website and masturbation as political expression.
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Posts by: Jessica Michalofsky
Leapfrog and Other Stories by Guillermo Rosales
Jessica Michalofsky reviews Guillermo Rosales’s LEAPFROG AND OTHER STORIES today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf
Jessica Michalofsky reviews Jeremias Gotthelf’s THE BLACK SPIDER today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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“In Partial Disgrace,” by Charles Newman
To get to Cannonia, the setting for Charles Newman’s long-awaited and posthumously published novel, In Partial Disgrace, you’ll have a choice of gigs: “fantailed or tub-bodied; a chariotee, rockaway, or volonte; a Stanhope, tilbury, or cabriolet; a victoria, barouche or laundolet.”
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Yok, by Tim Davys
Life on streets of Tim Davys’ novel, Yok, is tough. Choices are hard, and knocks are harder. But the characters are soft. Squeezably soft. Stuffed with little more than fluff, the foxes, monkeys, goats, rabbits, and geckos in Tim Davys’ Aesop-esque fables nevertheless seek the denser stuff of life: love, freedom, wisdom, hope, integrity, forgiveness.
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Children in Reindeer Woods by Kristín Ómarsdóttir
Kristín Ómarsdóttir’s novel, Children in Reindeer Woods, opens on a summer day during wartime in an unnamed country: the sun is high in the sky. Three soldiers cross a green meadow toward a two-story farmhouse. A small group of adults and children stands in the light breeze. A woman with a red tray meets them.
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