Features & Reviews
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The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies and Writing to Save a Life by John Edgar Wideman
Suzanne Enzerink reviews The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies and Writing to Save a Life by John Edgar Wideman today in Rumpus Books.
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Is It My Story or Yours?
Our family stories mutate with every retelling across the generations like a game of telephone, until the thin, sharp line of fact becomes frayed and hazy.
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This Week in Books: Licorice Candies
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and wisdom, and they are an important part of our toolkit…
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I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell
Ryan Werner reviews I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell today in Rumpus Books.
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Albert
Laura Albert discusses her alter ego JT LeRoy, Jeff Feuerzeig’s documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story, her complicated relationship with her mother, and life as a hustler.
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Blood on Blood by Devin Kelly
Kenny Torrella review’s Devin Kelly’s Blood on Blood today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Martelli
Jennifer Martelli discusses her debut collection of poetry, The Uncanny Valley, growing up saturated with images of the Madonna, and her experience of motherhood first as a daughter and now as a mother.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #62: Julian Tepper
Upon publication of his first novel, Balls, author Julian Tepper received pointed advice from one Philip Roth: quit. What the elder statesman, on the verge of his own retirement, was trying to say is that the writing life is “just…
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The Monster’s Daughter by Michelle Pretorius
Jordan Bray reviews The Monster’s Daughter by Michelle Pretorius today in Rumpus Books.
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Led from a Distance by Harry Newman
Bill Wunder reviews Harry Newman’s Led from a Distance today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jacqueline Woodson
Jacqueline Woodson discusses her latest novel Another Brooklyn, the little deaths of lost friendships, and her work with children across the country as the Poetry Foundation’s Young People’s Poet Laureate.
