All the Buzz
As Stephen Elliott pointed out, people just can’t stop talking about new Buzzfeed books editor Isaac Fitzgerald. Roxane Gay wrote that Isaac is going to be “an intelligent and eminently capable editor.” This isn’t…
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Zoë Ruiz
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Zoe Ruiz is the former managing editor of The Rumpus. Her work has appeared in The Weeklings, Salon, Two Serious Ladies, and Ohio Edit. She studied creative writing at UC Santa Cruz and now lives in Los Angeles.
Isaac is Buzzfeed’s First Books Editor
Brace yourself, San Francisco. Former Rumpus managing editor and current Rumpus co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald is moving to New York City to become BuzzFeed’s first books editor. What will this new books section look…
Welcome Jonterri Gadson!
We’re thrilled to introduce Jonterri Gadson, the newest addition to our Rumpus team! Jonterri is our assistant poetry editor and will be helping out with all things related to original poetry!…
A Scary Story with Lauren O’Neal
Listen to our very own editorial assistant Lauren O’Neal read her story “The Thing About Ghosts” on the Story Tapes podcast. After her story, she talks with host Eliza Smith about how…
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This week Stephen Elliott announced that I’m now managing editor for The Rumpus. I am so happy (beyond happy) to be taking on this new role.
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I’m back in Los Angeles! Yesterday I got coffee with Jim Gavin and Homer, the basset hound he’s pet sitting. Unlike me, Jim doesn’t usually pet sit. He usually writes…
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On Monday night at 826LA, J. Ryan Stradal and McSweeney’s organized a reading to celebrate Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Victoria Chang’s The Boss. Those two books are now…
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Remember when your Rumpus Sunday Editor Gina published fiction? She published Tom Kealy’s Nobody and Allison Amend’s The Stench. Stephen Elliott explained, “We don’t publish fiction on The Rumpus. But…
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I texted my friend at midnight: Are you still at the party? My friend said she still was there, she was in the garden, and there were a lot of…
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I’m rereading Tom Kealy’s The Creative Writing MFA Handbook, which means I’m thinking of applying to graduate school. When I was in San Francisco, I met Tom Kealy and would…
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I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about the Zimmerman verdict. I recommend Roxane Gay’s How America Profiled Trayvon Martin and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Karen Bender’s What Great Writing Can…