Rumpus Sound Takes: Jay Reatard, Wild Man with a Vision
When Jay Reatard was alive, he got called anything from “possessed” to “total dick.” Looking back on his recorded legacy with the ease awarded by hindsight, I see that he…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #43: Alana Voth in Conversation with Her Facebook Friend, Terry Gearlds
Terry Gearlds and I have never met. We’re friends on Facebook. We share some stuff in common like True Blood and horror movies. Also, anytime either of us see a…
FUNNY WOMEN #53: An Editors’ Slush-Pile Meeting at the Backdoor Review
At Backdoor Review, we receive tens of thousands of submissions. We’ve collected a few cover letters and reprinted them now (without permission) with manuscript comments from our editors in italics.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #42: Aimee Loiselle in Conversation with Grace Smith
I met Grace Smith (Yup’ik) when I was researching an article for The Circle, a Native American newspaper in the Twin Cities. The Native community in the Twin Cities is…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #88
TUNNELS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing tunnels.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #41: Alex Behr in Conversation with Margaret Murray
I heard about Margaret Murray before I met her: strange rumors about her being a kept woman in LA and a sad, true story of her apartment burning down in…
The Last Book I Loved: Orphans
The last book I loved was Charles D’Ambrosio’s essay collection, Orphans—but in fact, I loved the book before I read it. Smitten with the small format, I plucked it from…
One Quick Flash: Book Club Roundup
Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil has won the Eric Hoffer Grand Prize for books. The US Review of Books writes: “By enfolding folk beliefs, tales, or superstitions into contemporary experience,…
The Rumpus Interview with Blake Butler
Blake Butler is the author of There Is No Year (Harper Perennial, 2011), Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books, 2010), and Ever (Calamari Press, 2009). He is the editor of HTMLGIANT, Lamination…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #74: Ten Angry Boys
When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair.
THE LONELY VOICE #11: Eudora Welty, Total Bad Ass
Greatest American short story writer? Ever? For me, it’s not even an interesting question. Welty in a landslide.
Danya Glabau: The Last Book I Loved, In the Metro
To speak of “the other” is often to say very little nowadays. There are big-O others, little-o others, psychoanalytic others, (post)colonial others, others who punish and spy on us when…