Features & Reviews
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Me and Mr Booker by Cory Taylor
Though left, by the author, to our own devices, I suspect that any reader venturing into Cory Taylor’s novel of intergenerational love will find his or her direction quite early on, when its sixteen year-old protagonist, Martha, abruptly describes licking…
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The Rumpus Interview with Terry Tempest Williams
In fifty-four sections, Terry Tempest Williams not only tries to gain a greater understanding of her mother, she explores her faith, her marriage, her role as a woman in the world, and much more.
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The Rumpus Interview with Scout Niblett
Though Scout (née Emma) Niblett’s new record features a striking cover photo of her deep in a kiss, love songs are not on the menu.
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The Opposite of Work by Hugh Behm-Steinberg
Charles Kruger reviews Hugh Behm-Steinberg’s The Opposite of Work today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Double Feature by Owen King
Owen King does an amazing thing in his debut novel Double Feature by making the stakes to these questions matter to his characters in a fundamental, identity-forming way; he clears the air of stuffy academic arguments or stoner philosophizing in…
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The Rumpus Interview with Leigh Newman
Balancing love and truth probably requires a very rigid, if not anal avoidance of glory and shame, when it comes to the portrayal of the people in the story—be they family members or characters.
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You by Austin Grossman
The last pages of You by Austin Grossman recount a timeline of video game history. This timeline ends in March 2008 with the death of Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons & Dragons. While You is a novel set in the…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
To celebrate this year’s Pride, The Rumpus sits down with writer Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, to discuss her new book The End of San Francisco.
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Odessa by Patricia Kirkpatrick
Jim Zukowski reviews Patricia Kirkpatrick’s Odessa today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Bully Pulpit by Kim Bridgford
Julie Marie Wade reviews Kim Bridgford’s Bully Pulpit today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Fantastic Book Trailers and the Reasons They’re So Good
There tends to exist a general skepticism toward book trailers.
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The Rumpus Interview with Mark Jay Brewin, Jr.
Mark Jay Brewin, Jr. waxes about Catholicism, the roles of fathers and sons, and what it means to be a poet from New Jersey.