DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #49: The Locked Cock
She gets to choose too. She’s a person.
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Yeah, I Like Richard Yates. So What?
“Richard Yates is an odd novel with an odd title and even odder character names. Oddly enough, it works… for me anyway.” The Well-Read Wife defends liking Tao Lin’s latest.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #27: Chris Graham in Conversation with Aaron Wendland
Aaron Wendland is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, where he works on Heidegger and reads widely in the history of philosophy. Originally from Canada, Aaron…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #50
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing unconditional love.
How to Seduce Men
Turns out The Great Gatsby is good for more than passing eighth grade English – try seduction. May not get you a marriage proposal, but might be good for a…
The Eyeball #34: The Thorn in My Heart
What’s going on with Michel Gondry’s career these days? Well, this, for starters…
An Invisible Giraffe. A Pyramid of Glass. A Development At Once Revealing and Occluding: Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation
Rumpus Poetry Book Club advisory board member Gabrielle Calvocoressi on why she chose Timothy Donnelly’s The Cloud Corporation to be the group’s September selection.
The Last Book I Loved: The House of Mirth
It’s fitting that I only finally read The House of Mirth, Wharton’s great novel about the decline and fall of a socialite by the name of Lily Bart, around the…
Of Scallops and Clouds: The Rumpus Book Club Round-Up
-Tao Lin, author of the August book club pick Richard Yates, has become notorious for his pranks, cons, and general attempts to outwit his readers and/or neighborhood bookstore employees. So when…
Swinging Modern Sounds #25: 100% Nepotism
It’s the Internet, where I am plying my trade here, and it’s meant to be the Wild West—unregulated, unruly, unpredictable.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #48: Write Like a Motherfucker
I want to know what you have inside you. I want to see the contours of your second beating heart.
Francisconi on Yates
Be sure not to miss Rumpus Book Club member John Francisconi’s essay “Tao Lin, Richard Yates, & Me.”