Diane Williams Interview
January’s Rumpus Book Club selection is Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, by Diane Williams. This 2008 Believer interview with Williams is not to be missed. “I said that literature ought…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Prompts in Your Box
Online writing community Figment has recently inaugurated Figment Daily Themes, “a free daily email service through which subscribers receive a thoughtful, compelling writing prompt five days a week.” Occasionally, prompts…
Legs Get Led Astray
Rumpus contributor Chloe Caldwell’s book of essays, Legs Get Led Astray, will be released this April. You can pre-order the collection from the Future Tense Books website. “Legs Get Led…
“Nothing Good Gets Away”
In 1858, John Steinbeck’s eldest son wrote his father a letter in which he expressed his belief that he had fallen in love. Steinbeck wrote him back with advice. “First—if…
Skulls, Stories
The Awl interviews Jeanne Kelly, “a visual artist with a background in forensic art,” about her Kickstarter proposal that went unfunded. The project was inspired by Victorian human skulls from…
The City in Words
“They say fiction requires conflict; well, when New York was a war of all against all, you had all the conflict you could handle any time you put your feet…
Avoiding Amazon in 2012
“Many people assume that if you want e-books, you’ve got to buy them from Amazon or another online retailer. They’re wrong about that. You most certainly can purchase e-books from…
Kim Hyesoon Interview
Guernica has an extensive interview with South Korean poet Kim Hyesoon, who elaborates on life as a woman poet and the state of feminism in Korea. Hyesoon discusses the role…
Joshua Mohr Reads From Damascus
At KQED’s The Writers’ Block, Rumpus contributor Joshua Mohr reads a passage from his new novel Damascus. The passage comes from the book’s second chapter and focuses on a man…
“Before He Opened His Mouth”
“Somehow you wind up on the topic of his wife’s vagina.” So begins Rumpus columnist Sari Botton’s story, “Before He Opened His Mouth,” which was published yesterday at This Recording.
What’s Your Favorite Poem and Why?
“That was the question Nicola Behrman asked her pals on the eve of Thanksgiving 2010. Then, on a whim, she asked them to write it out by hand and pop…
Fractured Systems
The Nation explores the poetry of Juliana Spahr, Noah Eli Gordon, Anna Moschovakis and Kathleen Ossip, articulating how all four poets react to “big modern systems,” while rendering compounded emotions.…