The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Lloyd
Rachel Lloyd talks about her book, Girls Like Us, founding Girls Education and Mentoring Service (GEMS), and why she was hesitant to write a memoir.
Features & Reviews
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The Shape-Shifter
In his memoir, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked, Darrell Hammond tells his story with a remarkable candor that seems designed not to shock or titillate, but to…
Trees Are Blooming Into Bright Lightbulbs
Schomburg’s newest book, Fjords, Vol. 1 holds true to this idea of finding familiarity in a parallel consciousness. Just because the poems often work in a seemingly private dreamscape, doesn’t…
Horn! Reviews
HORN! REVIEWS: Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty Another fantastic Rumpus Comic book review by Kevin Thomas.
The Whole Vortex of Home
[Peter] Gizzi’s particular gift is to posit that shifting location where senses meet the terrible and the sublime, where political portent or its brittle actualities announce themselves in various configurations.
Camille T. Dungy Book Tour
Camille T. Dungy’s book tour, which features readings from Smith Blue, Suck on the Marrow, Black Nature and other new work, begins this Saturday, February 25th, 7p.m. at Nick’s Lounge…
Before and After
Sitting on the edge of the English language, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s new collection Apricot Jam and Other Stories pushes us into twentieth century Russia.
Cheryl Strayed Podcasted!
Brad Listi interviews Cheryl Strayed for his “Other People” podcast. Listen in as Strayed talks about being Sugar and the coming out party. More topics include: “…Love, advice, self-help, narcissism,…
Hot Pink Tour
Adam Levin’s Hot Pink tour is kicking off this weekend. Events begin in San Francisco on February 26th, 1p.m. for the Jewish BookFest Panel at JCCSF and February 27th, 7p.m.…
Author Interview App
Ron Hogan is relaunching his Beatrice website as an app that will publish transcripts of feature-length interviews with authors, along with streaming video of highlights from each conversation. In order…