Columns
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Women and Workplace Fiction
Over at the New Yorker, Lydia Kiesling writes about workplace fiction, typically seen as a male-centric dominion overseen by writers like Kafka, as written by women from Helen Phillips in The Beautiful Bureaucrat to Terry McMillan in How Stella Got…
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Letters to Laura from a McDonald’s in Brooklyn
Tonight my loneliness is infinite and I could eat dinner or dance with my limbs wild because there is no gravity keeping me grounded.
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The World’s Nicest Dad
Sara Benincasa‘s latest book, Tim Kaine Is Your Nice Dad, has made its way onto the bestseller lists on Amazon and Kindle since its electronic release on Friday. The 26-page book, a parody of Tim Kaine as “the world’s nicest dad,” was…
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Embers to Screen for One Week in Los Angeles
Embers, the movie featured in our article “The Great Film Festival Swindle,” is playing in Los Angeles for one week only at the Arclight Hollywood starting August 5. Our friends at Slamdance are hosting the screening (seriously, we love these guys).…
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Opening up via Translation
At Lit Hub, Christina Farella examines the exchange of cultural ideas that comes with translation, using Helen DeWitt’s novel The Last Samurai as an example of books enriched by engaging with other languages in the English text itself.
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Notable Los Angeles: 8/1–8/7
Monday 8/1: Ian Gurvitz discusses and signs Welcome to Dumbfuckistan: The Dumbed-Down, Disinformed, Dysfunctional, Disunited States of America. 7 p.m at Book Soup. An evening of poetry featuring Laurel Ann Bogen, Gail Wronsky, and Holaday Mason. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, Michael Wasson’s imagistic prose poetry fills the Saturday Essay. Wasson’s dreamlike narrative describes a first day of school from his childhood. Wasson recalls the teacher taking attendance, calling out, “who’s missing?” The question launches a lyrical investigation of the author’s memory and identity. Then,…
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UnREAL Gaze
Ultimately what is more real and desirable is showing savage, ambitious women rising from the ashes of a sexist society and becoming whole, instead of acting like dudes. For Tabú, Antonia Crane writes about UnREAL, a Lifetime drama highlighting destructive,…
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This is Not My Beautiful Life by Victoria Fedden and How to Party with an Infant by Kaui Hart Hemmings
Elizabeth Stark reviews This Is Not My Beautiful Life by Victoria Fedden and How to Party with an Infant by Kaui Hart Hemmings today in Rumpus Books.
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Franchise Exploitation
Harry Potter fans are celebrating the release of J.K Rowling’s newest work, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the eighth installment in the Harry Potter series. However, unlike the other novels in the series, Cursed Child is the script of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s hard to explain just how much time I spend thinking about hoisin sauce. Today is super cool fun news: climate change is literally unleashing anthrax now. Meanwhile, studying forgotten photographs to chart Iceland’s melting glaciers. Indian street graphics are…
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The Rumpus Interview with Ranbir Singh Sidhu
Ranbir Singh Sidhu discusses his new novel, Deep Singh Blue, growing up in rural California, and the privileged, problematic world of publishing.