Weekend Rumpus Roundup
It’s that time again. Time to round up all the Rumpus weekends. Or the weekend Rumpuses. Or something. This weekend, we featured two super-cool interviews. Saturday’s was a lively discussion…
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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.
Conversational Pointers from 150 Years Ago
Though these tips for being a good conversationalist are reprinted on The Art of Manliness, they apply to any speaker regardless of gender. What’s truly surprising about them is that…
The Greatest American Novel
The Millions “asked nine English scholars to choose one novel as the greatest our country has ever produced.” The results span a wide range subjects, authors, and time periods. Most you’ve…
Matt Bell and Callie Collins in Austin
Austin folks, if you need to take a breather from politics, come to Bookpeople this Saturday for a Matt Bell reading! Bell, whose novel In the House upon the Dirt between…
The Muse or the Devil
In a daily feature about “books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly,” NPR’s Two-Way blog linked to our interview with Oliver Sacks about his latest investigation of extraordinary neurology, Hallucinations. Thanks,…
Pay No Attention to the Sexism Behind the Curtain
At a relatively slim 3700 words, Moira Weigel’s and Mal Ahern’s essay “Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child,” sparked by less-than-enlightened political text Preliminary Materials for a Theory of…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Release Surprisingly Literary Music Video
Regardless of your level of enamoration with indie-rock mainstays the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, if you’re a Rumpus reader, you’ll probably dig the video for their new single “Sacrilege.” It unfolds…
What About Sex-Negative Feminism?
“Sex does not happen in a vacuum immune to outside structural influences,” writes Jillian Horowitz in a piece titled “Unpopular Opinion: I’m A Sex-Negative Feminist.” “[I]n fact, it can (and…
When the Writer Becomes the Written About
When I write a story about someone else, I keep me, myself and I, out of it….But a few years back, I wrote about someone else and did belong in…
Organic Keeping-on
Mental Floss’s brief history of the term “OK” is more than just all right. Using Allan Metcalf’s OK: The Improbably Story of America’s Greatest Word as a source, it covers not…
How the Other Half of Myself Lives
When Tara Clancy’s mom went from being a cleaning lady to being the girlfriend of the millionaire whose office she cleaned, Clancy’s time became divided in a strange way: If…
“The First Boy To See Something Electric In Me”
For smashing new website The Toast, Anne Helen Petersen writes about the particular exuberance of half-childish first love and—this is not a spoiler, it’s announced in the piece’s second paragraph—how she…