Barbara Jean Narrated
Listen to narrator Xe Sands read Rebecca K. O’Connor’s excellent Rumpus essay (and book-in-progress) “What We Lost When We Lost Barbara Jean.”
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
HuffPost Letter Love
The Huffington Post interviews Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott about Letters in the Mail. “With a letter, you walk away from everything. You open it and read it. It’s just you…
In the Aura
In his essay Accidental Pugilism, Richard Farrell details the “both terrifying and inexplicably peaceful” experience of an epileptic aura, the phenomena that precedes a seizure. “The heart does rebel against…
On Beautiful Thing
The New York Times reviews Sonia Faleiro’s Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay’s Dance Bars. Jessica Crispin interviews Faleiro about the book and its narrative nonfiction lens. “Social…
Ellen Ullman Interview
Volume 1 converses with Ellen Ullman about her new novel By Blood, San Francisco, and whether Ullman’s old programmer habits surface while writing fiction. “Code-writing, in my experience, is emotionally…
Keith Haring’s Early Years
At The New York Observer, Rosalia Jovanovic reports on the Brooklyn Museum’s soon-to-open “Keith Haring: 1978-1982” exhibition, which focuses on the early, “very raw” years of the renowned street artist’s…
Goliath Excerpt
Today brought the release of Goliath by Tom Gauld (who was featured in our Spotlight Series this past fall). Boing Boing shares a seven-page excerpt from the Drawn & Quarterly…
Cellular Relationships
You may have used your cell phone to have a heart-to-heart with someone else, but have you every opened up and talked it out with that very phone? A new…
Eileen Myles on Inferno
CA Conrad and Eileen Myles have an extensive conversation over at BOMBLog. Topics include Myles’ new “poet’s novel” Inferno, how memory’s role differs in composing poetry versus fiction, and writing…
Soccer to the Rescue?
At The Atlantic, Rumpus contributor Chris Feliciano Arnold looks at efforts to draw Major League Soccer to Tucson, Arizona and wonders whether building a community around the game can be…
Free iPad Version of Canteen!
Canteen magazine is now available on the iPad. The first digital version is a reproduction of Canteen’s Issue 7, which features their controversial Hot Authors project with Rumpus editor Stephen…
Inside the Machine
At Mother Jones, Mac McClelland writes a must-read piece about her time working in an online-shipping warehouse, exposing an appalling workplace reality at the center of popular and profitable cyber-retailers.…