Posts by author
The Rumpus
-
Animals in Midlife Crises
ANIMALS IN MIDLIFE CRISES: Frog Another fantastic Rumpus Comic from Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods.
-
Worth the Effort
Dick Wimmer, “who after 25 years of submissions and more than 150 rejections finally got [his] book published” in 1989, making him the self-declared “most-rejected published novelist in history,” passed away on May 18th at the age of 74.
-
Rejected
Artist Hally McGehean has been selected for Time Out New York’s list of hot “spring singles.” Now usually we’d never link to a piece like that, but we like this one… mainly because Hally has been rejecting our managing editor…
-
“Fiction Must Stick to Facts”
“My first novel is labeled as and widely considered to be historical fiction, but I can honestly say I never thought of it that way, not in all the years it took me to write it.” Jessica Francis Kane viewed…
-
An Interview with Character(s)
Tara Jepsen and Beth Lisick recently interviewed New Zealand folksinging/activist sensations the Topp Twins (stars of the documentary Untouchable Girls). Even better? Jepsen and Lisick conduct the entire interview as their comedic characters Carole and Mitzi, in recognition of the…
-
Poem from ZYZZYVA
“I need it all flying apart. My friends to slam against me, to hold me, to say they love me.” From Carl Adamshick’s “Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging.”