Every since I wrote this weekend with the news that I’m stepping down, after 11 years, as a columnist on poetry for my local paper, I’ve received some very nice…
Her Kind, a literary community powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts chose hair as its September theme. Lisa Russ-Spaar and Zayne Turner’s conversation on the site responded to the…
The Threepenny Review’s Fall 2013 issue includes a section called “A Symposium on Revenge” with selections by Geoff Dyer, Robert Pinsky, James Lasdun, Adam Phillips, and Louise Glück. Threepenny, so lovingly,…
To celebrate our growing female fan base (99.98%!) we’re remaking some of the great classics--only this time the women are stronger, deadlier, and more passionate than ever.
In the three years since my friend Abby gave me her couch, she moved four times, changed jobs twice, became engaged, got married, and gave birth. During that same time…
Have you heard about the American Writers Museum? The Little Village That Could: New Mexico’s Madrid (home of Rumpus alum Emily Rapp) rallies after a serious flood. Patrick O’Neil leaves…
It was strange. Volume One of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s six-volume memoir/novel was, with one traumatic exception near the end, the story of a typical young man. He had a typical…