Shenanigans!
PANK reviews Rumpus contributor Joseph Michael Owens’ Shenanigans! “Whether centering on a nunchaku-wielding neighbor, the mistrust between man and his best friend over nail-clipping, or a wedding proposal that leads…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Elegy and Affirmation
McSweeney’s interviews Rebecca Lindenberg about her first book Love, an Index, making poetry out of Facebook statuses, “maximalism,” and more. “I think there is a general misconception that you write…
“Read It and Weep”
At The New York Times, Dwight Garner reviews Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, revealing the “cumulative welling up” he experienced while reading. “…There’s nothing cloying about Wild. It’s uplifting, but not in…
Love, Lust, and Havoc
At The New York Times, Rumpus columnist Peter Orner reviews Adam Levin’s new story collection, Hot Pink. “Life in Hot Pink is raw, messy, yet replete with moments of awkward…
Trayvon Martin
President Obama made a statement this morning. Updates from Ta-Nehisi Coates, who was on PBS Newshour last night. “Anyone who’s outside of straight white maleness, you have to deal with…
Anna Pulley on Savage Love
Rumpus contributor Anna Pulley (who Sugar named as one of her favorite advice columnists) helps Dan Savage answer a query on his latest Savage Love episode. Pulley doles out wisdom…
The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets
Congrats to Rumpus contributor Kathleen Alcott! Her novel will be released by Other Press in September 2012 and can be pre-ordered here. “The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets centers around Ida and…
Alice Walker Interview
The Atlantic converses with Alice Walker. The Pulitzer-prize winning author reflects on America as a “people in the making,” the importance of poetry, standing up for women, and aging. “…There’s…
Book Smuggling
Writers and activists are setting up an underground library in Tucson, Arizona. The librotraficante movement is an effort to expose Tucson students to the collection of books banned when the…
Trayvon Martin
A Million Hoodies March for Trayvon Martin is taking place in NYC right now. Live streaming video here. There’s a Bay Area Million Hoodies March that begins at the Bradley…
Mass Unfriending
“The idea of ‘cleaning out’ Facebook friends is getting more popular: The percentage of people unfriending other Facebook members rose from 56 percent in 2009 to 63 percent in 2011.…
“Words for Remembering”
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rumpus contributor Lauren Eggert-Crowe reviews columnist and Book Club author Peter Orner’s Love and Shame and Love. “…All the love that permeates…