Trans Lit Blooms
“Whereas in the past, most trans books were non-fiction, either how-to or memoir books, we’re starting to see novels and short fiction coming from trans authors in North America,” explains…
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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.
Congratulations to All the Pulitzer Winners!
Congratulations to the hardworking writers who won Pulitzer Prizes yesterday, especially Rumpus interviewees Adam Johnson and Tom Reiss! Johnson won in the fiction category with his novel The Orphan Master’s Son,…
Happy Birthday, Henry James!
Happy birthday to Henry James! He pioneered modern fiction techniques with novels like The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors—and of course The Turn of the Screw remains an exemplar of the…
A Very Non-Accidental Response to Brad Paisley
You may have noticed one or two jokes about Brad Paisley and LL Cool J’s collaboration “Accidental Racist,” partially because of every aspect of the song, but mainly because of…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Did you enjoy your weekend? Revisit it with a look at our weekend Rumpus features. Didn’t enjoy your weekend? We have just the thing to cheer you up: weekend Rumpus…
DC Comics’ First Transgender Character
DC Comics’ “New 52” gambit, in which they scrapped all their series’ storylines and replaced them with new ones, did away with many of the characters that kept the DC…
Making Sense of the MFA Debate
We’re all familiar with the great MFA debate: Can an MFA program teach you how to write? Is it just a Ponzi scheme? Why should you enroll in one, or…
“Talk Dirty and Live Clean”
If reading our interview with Peter Rock (and getting psyched for his reading tomorrow) has whetted your appetite for cult stories, check out this piece on Synanon by George Pendle,…
What VIDA Stats Mean on A Personal Level
This year’s VIDA stats gave us a (depressing) wide-lens view of women’s status in the writing industry, but for a (depressing) close-up perspective, read Deborah Copaken Kogan’s recent essay in The Nation about…
Three Cheers for 100 Amazing Trans Americans
Here’s a BuzzFeed list that’s definitely worth reading: 100 Amazing Trans Americans You Should Know. They’re artists, educators, activists, and more, and they’re doing great work all over the country.…
Scandal in the World of Quiz Bowl
“Nerd culture” may be, at this point, thoroughly subsumed into the capitalist mainstream (see: The Big Bang Theory, the explosion of Comic-Con’s popularity, they’re seriously gonna make more Star Wars…
Go Find Lost Cat
Where does your cat go when he’s missing, and what would you do to find out? Rumpus contributors Caroline Paul and Wendy MacNaughton went all the way, employing kitty-stalking gear…