Sometimes, there’s so much cool stuff happening close to home, that a girl has to give in to Rumpus self-referentiality: 1) This has been Cheryl Strayed week, pretty much. If…
Author Sara Levine read a few chapters from her novel Treasure Island!!! (a Rumpus Book Club selection) at WORD bookstore in Brooklyn and said wonderfully interesting things during the Q &…
It’s a pretty fine time for galleys. I get a lot of galleys in the mail because of my role as the Fiction Editor over at The Nervous Breakdown. Sometimes,…
Marge Piercy’s unflinching clarity of vision continues to be the kind of sturdy example so vital to literature. She has long been teaching and in the public arena, on the…
At The New Republic, Ruth Franklin celebrates the work of the late Wislawa Szymborska, and explores the brilliance of Polish poetry throughout the last half-century. “Assuming that there weren’t any…