The Rumpus Interview with Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman discusses the challenges of writing a series, why his 20s were a lost decade, and his relationship with his readers.
Features & Reviews
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Guantanamo by Frank Smith
Jeffrey Zuckerman reviews Guantanamo by Frank Smith today in Rumpus Books.
More Curious by Sean Wilsey
Brett Josef Grubisic reviews More Curious by Sean Wilsey today in Rumpus Books.
The Rumpus Interview with Will Chancellor
Debut novelist Will Chancellor talks about successful satire, destroying drafts of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall to get to the finished version, and the advantages of fiction over competing media.
Bowie by Simon Critchley
Bowie was the being who permitted a powerful emotional connection and freed them to become some other kind of self, something freer, more queer, more honest, more open, and more exciting.
The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2014 Edited by Robert Bringhurst
Lois Bassen reviews The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2014 edited by Robert Bringhurst today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Last Book I Loved: The Silent Woman
I had recently broken all of my wine glasses. I did not break them all at the same time. Some I broke while cleaning, and I was upset that I had managed to destroy something while trying to make it clean, make it better.
The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
We make a case against David Mitchell's new novel, update the Indian American immigrant story, and interview a queer renaissance woman—all in Rumpus Books.
Like a Beggar by Ellen Bass
Julie Enszer reviews Ellen Bass's Like a Beggar today in Rumpus Poetry.
The Rumpus Interview with Owen Pallett
Canadian musician Owen Pallett talks Tori Amos, perfectionism, percussion, and dark head spaces with Erin Lyndal Martin.
Flight 232 by Laurence Gonzales
Rachel Rose reviews Flight 232 by Laurence Gonzales today in Rumpus Books.