The Lonely Voice #28: All Lives Are Interesting: My Father and Mavis Gallant
Alive, dead, what’s it matter to me, truly? I had her books then, I have her books now. Let others sing her praises today from the rooftops. For me, Gallant is all days.
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Aimless Love by Billy Collins
Alexander Shafer reviews Billy Collins's Aimless Love today in Rumpus Poetry.
Sisterhood by Julie Enszer
Julie Marie Wade reviews Julie Enszer's Sisterhood today in Rumpus Poetry.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Is Poetry Ready for Pandora?
Granted my affliction does not in any way parallel the gravity of close friends who aren’t so much battling but, as Christopher Hitchens put it, being battled by cancer, and…
Make/Work Episode 6: LuLing Osofsky
Every creative laborer has a different story to tell about how they negotiate their relationship between their creative work and their paycheck.
Cunt Norton by Dodie Bellamy
David Peak reviews Dodie Bellamy's Cunt Norton today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Interview with Chris Abani
Chris Abani sits down to talk about the dangers and seduction of fiction, literature as transformation, growing up in Nigeria, and how "our every justification is a story."
Equivalents by Jessica Baran
Sara Habein reviews Jessica Baran's Equivalents today in Rumpus Poetry.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Last summer I found a small box stashed away in my apartment, a box filled with enough Vicoden to kill me. I would have sworn that I’d thrown them away…
The Cloud That Contained the Lightning by Cynthia Lowen
Michael Klein reviews Cynthia Lowen's The Cloud That Contained the Lightning today in Rumpus Poetry.
Belle Cora and the San Francisco Powder Keg
A new historical novel shows that the Bay Area is no stranger to class warfare and vigilante justice.