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Girls Write Now NYC Reading This Friday!

Girls Write Now, an awesome organization that works with underserved teenage girls in New York to develop their creative voices, continues their 2014 CHAPTERS reading series with an evening featuring author, reporter,…

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Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Jeff Albers

The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Jeff Albers. Here’s an excerpt: These parties normally had a certain rhythm that suited Frank’s style, so relaxed and casual as to lead…

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But is Poetry a Job?

Over at the Poetry Foundation, Patricia Lockwood considers whether or not poetry is real work: Is it work, though? The question persists. Is a single muscle exerted during the process? Do…

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The Book That Wasn’t

Seventeen years ago I wrote a book, which you can find on Amazon and Google and elsewhere online. This is unusual only because my book was never published. Jason K.…

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Rumpus Weekly Fiction: Rebecca Gummere

The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Rebecca Gummere. Here’s an excerpt: Swing your arms, stretch a little. Keep walking and untie the sweater. Think about how much you hate…

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Oases in the Bookstore Desert

While many of Manhattan’s bookstores are closing shop or fleeing to outer boroughs, a few continue to thrive in the “bookstore desert.” New York Magazine takes a look at how six independent…

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Elizabeth Bishop’s Favorite Island

We know Bishop primarily as the eager traveler who wrote of distant, tropical locations and lived for many years as an expat in Brazil. She was that, of course, but…

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Biography and the Digital Self

After centuries of shuffling papers, biographers must now deal with the sudden digitization of the self, and the behavioral changes that have followed. Over at The Millions, Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin considers…

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Elliott on Algren

Rumpus founding editor Stephen Elliott on the influence of Nelson Algren. A scene from a new documentary on the great Chicago writer:

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The Future of English

Are English departments dying? Or, are they simply changing to meet the wants and needs of today’s students? Emory University professor Marc Bousquet argues it’s the latter, and sees more change…

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Literature, Meet Video Games

Over at The Millions, Maxwell Neely-Cohen argues that video games and literature have more in common than we think. Moreover, he suggests that the two genres could benefit significantly from…

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