Steve Almond, Author at The Rumpus

Features & Reviews

Steve Almond’s Bad Hair Museum
A Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life Contest

Have you ever had bad hair? Let me rephrase that question: When was the last time you had bad hair? Because it is one of the basic laws of Having…

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Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life #2

How Dave Grohl Taught Me to Stop Whining and (Against Every Known Impulse in My Body) Embrace Happiness

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Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life #1

“Chuck Prophet Writes the Songs That Make, Well, Not the Whole World, But a Small, Statistically Insignificant Portion of it Sing”

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Things to Do in Denver When You’re Braindead: An AWP Retrospective

1. Award George Saunders the Nobel Prize in Decency Have you ever met a single reader or writer who does not worship George Saunders? You have not. You have not…

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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Patrick Thomas Casey

But enough about what I think of me. Let’s find out what young Patrick thinks of me…

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Rumpus Original

Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #15: Sinatra Time

(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Sinatra Time It’s got nothing to do with nothing, pal, if you wanna know the truth.

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Heart Radical: The Strange, True Flight of Airships

Barry Hannah passed away Monday, March 1, 2010. He was 67 and died of natural causes. The precarious state of his health — he’d battled cancer for some years —…

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Rumpus Original

Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #14: Juice

(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) Juice Today the jury voted to “acquit” though the way the word leapt forth was the way a Southern gentleman…

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Features & Reviews

Dear Asshole

Rumpus contributor Steve Almond recently self-published a collection of hate mail that was sent to him (along with his responses) entitled Letters From People Who Hate Me. You can read…

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Presto Book-O (Why I Went Ahead and Self-Published)

To say that I’ve had a checkered history in publishing would be like saying Elizabeth Taylor had a checkered history in marriage.

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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Jason Mulgrew

And now, in the hopes you will make the same mistake, I am conducting the first of what I hope will be an endless series of interviews with former students who are now published writers.

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Rumpus Original

Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #13: In Hiroshima

(Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995) In Hiroshima In Hiroshima, after the bomb the sick lay close as lovers, the strong put tags on those who…

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