Red Epic by Joshua Clover
Barbara Berman reviews Joshua Clover's Red Epic today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Kingdom and After by Megan Fernandes
Linda Ashok reviews Megan Fernandes's The Kingdom and After today in Rumpus Poetry.
Letters for Kids Book Giveaway and Letter-Writing Contest
We’re doing another Letters for Kids giveaway! Win a copy of Operation Pucker Up, signed by the author Rachele Alpine! (Rachele also writes our next letter.) To enter, leave a comment on this…
Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews
Jessie Carty reviews Nin Andrews's Why God is a Woman today in Rumpus Poetry.
FUNNY WOMEN #132: How to Date a Writer
Listen closely. Any line said by the Writer is Very Important.
The Rumpus Review of [insert] boy by Danez Smith
In this sense, the book is a “coming-of-age” story and “spiritual quest” as much as a seething commentary on the catastrophe effected by the disease of contemporary racism and white supremacy.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jonathan Travelstead
I try to...consider the writing process as seriously as I do entering a house with black smoke puffing from its eaves.
The Last Book I Loved: The Way We Weren’t by Jill Talbot
None of us has telepathy, and even the most empathetic of us can’t really experience the world as another person experiences it. So we read essays and memoirs.
Next Letter in the Mail: Martha Bayne
We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from our own Sunday Editor Martha Bayne! Martha writes us a moving and wide-ranging letter about Greece,…
Next Letter for Kids: Rachele Alpine
We’re sending our next Letter for Kids from Rachele Alpine, author of Operation Pucker Up! Rachele writes us a very colorfully illustrated letter about “accidental mischief”. She gives lots of funny examples of…
Make/Work Episode 34: Joy Castro
In Episode 34 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks to Joy Castro about her unorthodox writing process, the course of her career, and the distinctions between literary and commercial fiction.
The Last Book I Loved: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932
What makes a person who they are? Is evil born or made?