Ghost Horse Wins Award
Congratulations to Rumpus reviewer Thomas H. McNeely for winning the 9th Annual Gival Press Novel Award! The winning novel, Ghost Horse, tells “the story of a boy’s journey to escape an abusive relationship…
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Lauren O'Neal
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Lauren O'Neal is an MFA student at San Francisco State University. Her writing has appeared in publications like Slate, The New Inquiry, and The Hairpin. You can follow her on Twitter at @laureneoneal.
RIP Lou Reed
Lou Reed, who changed the face of rock music both with the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, passed away yesterday at the age of 71. We trust you…
“He Put Her Out in the Cold”
When she aims the pistol at the doorman, he grabs her wrist and snatches the gun, then she starts to scream, “Baby, what have I done?” For The Paris Review, Aaron…
Good Work from the Museum of Bad Art
Travel blog Atlas Obscura has a post up on Slate about Massachusetts’s Museum of Bad Art, whose collection of paintings “displays a glaring gap between the artist’s sincerity and skill…
Read Emily Dickinson’s Poetry in Her Own Handwriting
Do you ever jot down lines of poetry on the back of an envelope? So did Emily Dickinson, as you might see if you look through the Emily Dickinson Archive.…
Let’s Face It: Oscar Wilde Would Have Ruled Twitter
“@MargaretAtwood @JoyceCarolOates @nycnovel @NathanEnglander @Shteyngart and I are fine with Twitter,” Salman Rushdie recently declared to the anti-social-media Jonathan Franzen. If famous authors of the past had been fine with Twitter,…
Tom Barbash Reading 10/30
Tom Barbash, Rumpus interviewee and author of a book that Stephen Elliott told Daily Rumpus subscribers made him cry, will be reading from his latest book Stay Up with Me in…
Homophobia in Hip-Hop
Rumpus pal W. Kamau Bell talked to prominent hip-hop video-blogger Jay Smooth in an interview spotlighted over at Racialicious. The two discuss homophobia in hip-hop and the eminent wisdom of…
Who Pays Writers?
Which publications pay writers? How do writers make enough money to survive? Scratch, a new online magazine edited by Jane Friedman and Manjula Martin, aims to find out. Their inaugural…
Safety First
Back in 2012, we published an essay by Lauren Becker called “Safety” about her experience being stalked. It was beautifully written and one of the scariest things you’ll ever read.…