What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Rumpus recommendations for books to gift to friends and family this holiday season!
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Opening Survival Doors Through Language: A Conversation with Stacey Waite
Stacey Waite talks about her poetry collections BUTCH GEOGRAPHY and THE LAKE HAS NO SAINT.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Andrew Bertaina
"Life is incredibly sad, but it’s also funny, joyful, wonderful, and strange."
Power, Speech, and Silence: The Weak Spot by Lucie Elven
The Weak Spot is more interested in the invisible forces that guide our ways of being in the world.
Finding Meaning at the Edge of Reality: Talking with Elissa Washuta
Elissa Washuta discusses her new essay collection, WHITE MAGIC.
Writing into the Unknown: A Conversation with Peter Ho Davies
A discussion with Peter Ho Davies to celebrate his new book, THE ART OF REVISION.
What to Read When You Want to Quit Your Job
Wendy J. Fox shares a reading list to celebrate WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
Startling Juxtapositions: Pilot Impostor by James Hannaham
Hannaham reserves his most vivifying language for planes and crashes.
Writing Toward Surprise: A Conversation with Leslie Pietrzyk
Leslie Pietrzyk discusses her new story collection, ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE.
Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Anthony Thomas Lombardi
so many miles just to slip / this skin. i won’t lie. i sobbed.
Laughing Through It: Emily Austin’s Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
Morbid humor exists for a reason: to poke fun at our inevitable ends and lighten its emotional load.