About eight or nine years ago I caught a ride from Northampton, Massachusetts to New York City with the poet Matthew Rohrer. We’d given a reading a few nights earlier…
The Book Clubs are rocking right now with this month’s selections, George Saunders’s Tenth of December and Camille Guthrie’s Articulated Lair, but there’s some great stuff on the horizon.
Having never read Gerald Stern’s poetry before, I took This Time: New and Selected Poems out from the library. The book won the National Book Award in 1998, and it…
I’ve known what many would call evil: child abuse, a close call with a murderer. I know about other people’s dark impulses, and so I’ve been all the more terrified of my own.
Who is Lucy? Nick’s ex-girlfriend? A ballerina? Whoever she was, we all have our Lucy. The woman who died too young. If you don’t have a Lucy yet, be assured,…
The world seems to be zooming towards a beautiful George Saunders tipping point. Hard to swing a cat without hitting how freaking awesome he is. Nice to see this in the…
Saturday 1/12: WriteGirl celebrates the book launch of No Character Limit Truth & Fiction! Meet the authors, and if you arrive an hour early, Rumpus Children’s Correspondence Editor Cecil Castellucci will…
Two of my favorite LA-based writers are Rumpus Contributors Antonia Crane and Melissa Chadburn. I admire and respect them as people and writers. This week, Melissa wrote her take on…