All Roads Lead to Writing
Over at The Millions, Rumpus contributor Nick Ripatrazone looks at the many and varied paths that bring writers to the profession and considers the benefits of time spent studying subjects other…
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Fiction in the Digital Age
Serialized fiction is experiencing a resurgence, and we have technology to thank. Back in 2012, The Silent History brought the serialized novel to our iPhones (check out our interview with co-author…
Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Jill Hanley
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Jill Hanley. Here’s an excerpt: Lola stepped into the kitchen to find her mother standing at the sink, showing no signs of tears. She…
Next Letter for Kids: Lemony Snicket
If there's any time to sign up for Letters for Kids, it's definitely now!
Fate, Chance, and Student Loans
Does everything happen for a reason? That’s the question writer Laura Leigh Abby had to ask herself after a car accident allowed her to graduate with an MFA degree loan-free: For…
Keep It Lit
The oldest independent black bookstore in the country, San Francisco’s Marcus Books, is in danger of closing. But if the owners can raise $2.6M, the San Francisco Community Land Trust will…
The Decline of Punctuation?!…
We live in a heyday of punctuation. “Call this what you will—exclamatory excess, punctuation inflation, the result of the Internet’s limitless expanse—it is everywhere,” writes Megan Garber at the Atlantic.…
By Any Other Name
I try to be open about who I am. I’m not interested in having a blank slate; I’d rather everyone just know what’s on mine. Maybe people think I’m hiding…
Gregor Samsa Dreams of RoboCop
Susan Bernofsky, in the introduction to her new translation of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, compares Gregor Samsa to famed American literary character Willy Loman. Over at the LA Review of Books, David…
Weekly Rumpus Fiction: Johnny Alfi
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Johnny Alfi. Here’s an excerpt: She once gave me her number outside Abbot’s Habit Coffeehouse. She once proposed that she and Nora get…
Pink Books and Blue Books
Across the pond, the Let Books Be Books campaign is circulating a petition calling on publishers of children’s books to stop labeling books according to gender and to “allow children to…
What We Talk About When We Talk About the American South
The latest issue of Guernica is out, and it’s a doozy. The special issue—the first of 4 such issues funded by a Kickstarter campaign—takes on the American South. Features include novelist Kiese…