Wild Excerpt
“My solo hike on the Pacific Crest Trail—three months, 1,100 miles—had many beginnings. There was the first, flip decision to do it, followed by the second, more serious decision to…
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Sugar’s (Illustrated) Coming Out Party!
Artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton illustrates last night’s Sugar Party in San Francisco:
Twin Cities by Carol Muske Dukes
Muske-Dukes's book seems the perfect read for this time of year when the year is winding down, yet life is still rumbling forward.
CHERYL STRAYED IS SUGAR!(!!!)
We are ECSTATIC to announce that author Cheryl Strayed is Sugar! Her forthcoming memoir, Wild, is our March Rumpus Book Club selection! (Click here to join.) But that’s not all:…
E.L. Doctorow on John Leonard
“There was something of a religious about John Leonard, however much of a principled skeptic he may have been. With his pale complexion, his round eyeglasses, there was a translucence…
Girlchild Launch Party
The launch party for Tupelo Hassman’s debut novel Girlchild (which we got a taste of at the last Monthly Rumpus) is this Saturday February 18th at Bird and Beckett Books…
On Romance Fiction
At The Awl, Maria Bustillos takes a closer look at romance novels, characterizing the genre as “underground writing,” while wondering what makes literature “trivial”? “There are distinct advantages in this…
On Pointe, and in Limbo
Martha Schabas’ Various Positions is an excellent novel about performance anxiety and sexual development disguised as a young adult novel.
The Rumpus Interview with Sara Benincasa
Comic, writer, feminist, advice-giver, and all around awesome person Sara Benincasa discusses her new memoir, Agorafabulous! Dispatches From My Bedroom.
Megan Boyle Interview
“I wrote a lot of things in the book because I thought I’d feel better if I could see something I thought or felt instead of letting it exist as…
The Glory of the Sunken
Set in a profane and beautiful world of uncertain values—a world that resembles ours but is in fact post-World War I Bucovina—Gregor von Rezzori’s An Ermine in Czernopol is a…
THE LONELY VOICE #16: Between the Public and the Sky (Part One of Five Stray Thoughts on Kafka)
Whoever leads a solitary life and yet now and then feels the need for some kind of contact…