Next Letter in the Mail: Chloe Caldwell
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Chloe Caldwell! While cat-sitting and stressing about where to find an envelope and a stamp, Chloe writes to…
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Join Us at the Brooklyn Book Festival
Tomorrow is the annual Brooklyn Book Festival. The book festival includes readings, signings, and panel discussions free and open to the public. Find the Rumpus at Booth 238, where you can chat…
Books, Books, and More Books
We have a new Monthly Book Report coming out on Monday morning! If you haven’t already subscribed, today is the day. You don’t want to miss our (free) roundup of all the…
Next Letter for Kids: William Alexander
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from William Alexander! William sends us a confession of something he did in the third grade involving a librarian he still hasn’t forgotten. Subscribe…
Next Letter in the Mail: Esmé Weijun Wang
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Esmé Weijun Wang! Esmé writes to us about her big dreams and how although chronic illness is the great…
After Adderall: It’s Playing Everywhere
After Adderall, a Rumpus-produced movie written and directed (and starring) Rumpus Founder and Editor-in-Chief Stephen Elliott, has been getting some great write-ups. And it’s probably playing somewhere near you very soon! September…
Next Letter in the Mail: Kristy Eldredge
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Kristy Eldredge! While traveling home on an Amtrak train, Kristy writes to us about her quest to become a…
Next Letter for Kids: Maria Gianferrari
Maria Gianferrari returns for our next Letter for Kids, and she wants to know what creatures are your wild neighbors? She’ll tell you about the late night encounter that inspired her…
Save Langston Hughes’s Harlem Home
Award-winning author Renée Watson is fighting to save the house that Langston Hughes lived in through much of the 1950s and 60s, until his death in 1967, Heather Long reports…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Essay, Naseem Jamnia considers memories, genetics, and what gets passed down from one generation to the next. She writes, “The brain is a curious, malleable thing,…
Meet Our New Rumpus Editors!
You may have noticed some recent changes to The Rumpus masthead. First, the sad news. Our terrific Essays Editor, Tracy Strauss, is stepping down to focus on other projects, including a new series over…
Next Letter for Kids: Cylin Busby
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Cylin Busby! Cylin writes to us about her childhood farm and all her barn cats—wow, did she have a lot of cats! And they were the…