A Snapshot of Contemporary Times
For The Millions, Jennifer Rice Epstein reviews New American Stories, an anthology edited by Ben Marcus, and discusses how the collection reflects modern American life.
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P.E. Garcia
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P.E. Garcia is an Editor-at-Large for the Rumpus and a contributor to HTMLGiant. They currently live in Philadelphia, where they were recently accidentally elected to be Judge of Elections. Find them on Twitter: @AvantGarcia.
It’s Hard Out Here for a Poet
Years ago, I had this great photo of a storm spiral over Antarctica. It was a full-page photo I ripped out of a magazine, probably a National Geographic, and which…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) China’s army is waging a war on foot odor. The US Postal…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) The new French Scrabble Champion doesn’t speak French. Scientists condemn the journal…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) Studies confirm: men who harass women are literally losers. These cyborg rhinos…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) A British politician’s appropriate response to the Daily Mail asking about her weight. For…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
(Dan Weiss is out on tour with his band The Yellow Dress. He’ll be back on August 3rd.) The Minions might be annoying, but they saved this girl’s life. Don’t…
Help Keep Up Belt
Belt Magazine (whose Editor-in-Chief happens to be the Rumpus’s own Martha Bayne) is the only magazine that publishes independent journalism about the Rust Belt—and it pays all of its contributors…
The Sweet Sound of Cat Pianos
The Public Domain Review takes a trip through the world of imaginary musical instruments, including sound houses, steam-powered bands, and the infamous cat piano.
Honesty is Ugly
I used to work more deliberately at resolving contradictions in my work. Now I tend to see contradictions as evidence that I’ve gotten close to saying something true. When we’re…
The Poetics of Everything
Sure, there’s poetry and there are certain conventions associated with it, but the notion of poetics can exist outside of a literary space. The Believer blog interviews poet Lucy Ives…
The Sickly Life of Robert Louis Stevenson
Dig the grave and let me lie Glad did I live and gladly die Humanities profiles Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson and looks at how his constant struggle with…