Did you catch “The Candidate In Bloom,” a short story from Doug Dorst’s forthcoming collection, The Surf Guru, that we posted yesterday? Interestingly enough, The Surf Guru is our Rumpus…
I live two hours and a lifetime away from Los Angeles. I’m still trying to figure out how I feel about that. My mother’s an actress, I told the kids on…
I live on Bomarc Lane, which is located in Satellite Beach on Florida’s Space Coast and is about two miles away from Patrick Air Force Base. The street is named…
In Rochester, New York, my best friend Brian returns from a mission to fix an errant Xerox brand copier, the company that employs him as a technician. I sit in…
This is an interview with my mom. I was hyper-critical of her when she was alive and never gave her enough credit. She was an only child, raised in DC…
Join The Rumpus Book Club today to receive our second selection, Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. ** Just a quick post today. Such a vigorous discussion about the book as…
That’s what we authors are always working for, that personal connection with the reader. It’s what makes all the unpaid hours, mostly spent blogging for a book deal, worthwhile.
I live on 13th Street in apartment #13. The superstitious address came with a discounted rent. My roommate is a high school English teacher, so our bookshelves are stacked with…