Repaired Circuits
“If we can find birds on the pages of books, and gods within concrete, it does not seem fantastic to encounter our parents inside of their pots and patios.” At…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Micropress Managing
Rumpus contributor Roxane Gay details the ins and outs of starting a micropress based on the lessons she’s learned starting Tiny Hardcore Press. “You have to be prepared to hustle.…
Candid Convo with Edmund White
Vice interviews author Edmund White. The conversation covers porn, the perfect man, “gay-lit,” and a lot more. “No one tries to figure out how someone ended up straight, though it…
“Barracuda, Kosher”
At The Hairpin, Esther C. Werdiger’s story “The League of Ordinary Ladies: Keep them Googling” illustrates her sagas of winter in-bed working, the post office, and iphone google search history.
Thanks this isn’t happiness
This isn’t happiness highlighted yesterday’s FUNNY WOMEN #74: “My Debilitating Anxiety Decodes My Unread Work Emails.” We love you back!
Book Publishing Hierarchy
We also make an exception for a list if it’s really funny, and we’re on it. Hence: Paul Bogaards’ “Hierarchy of Book Publishing: The Top 100.”
Best Director Boys Club
We don’t usually do lists, but when the Academy’s list of Best Director nominees is 100% dudes, an exception seems necessary. Canonball chronicles five female directors “whose direction deserved more…
Diane Williams Q&A
McSweeney’s interviews Diane Williams, author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty. Williams discusses the humor in her short story collection, being read to as…
Ryan Boudinot in SF
Rumpus columnist Ryan Boudinot will be all over San Francisco this week, accompanied by his newly released novel Blueprints of the Afterlife. There are two events to choose from, or…
Cormac McCarthy Hoax
This morning, a Cormac McCarthy impersonator showed up on Twitter, duping some twitterers until Vintage and Anchor confirmed that it was not the real McCarthy. In fact, the writer does…
Winter Binges
“There is something of a binge drinking belt across the north of the country, running westward from New England, Pennsylvania and Ohio to Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota…