“Why do I keep running away from Mikhail Bulgakov? I’ve been on the run for years now. From the first time I was encouraged to read The Master and Margarita,…
In anticipation of Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, which comes out next month, The Guardian has put together a comprehensive list of rules for writing by writers like Margaret…
The LA Times has announced the finalists for their book awards, and we’re pleased that we’ve reviewed a number of them here at The Rumpus. I’m particularly proud that we…
This week in New York 2010: Whitney Biennial opens, Gigantic holds a launch party for Issue 2: Gigantic America, Anderbo Reading at KGB, Mary Karr talks with Philip Gourevitch, MOMA…
While it is now one month later, we’d like to thank everyone who came out for ONE YEAR LATER, the Rumpus anniversary party co-presented by The Rumpus and sister-mag HTMLGIANT…
This week: See Rumpus favorites Stephen Elliott and W. Kamau Bell at their respective performances on Sex and Black History Month, raise money for Bryant Elementary School at Wet Wednesday…
“Like most people, I would rather be someone else. The prose this other self would write would be sharp and coiled, deadly like a snake; not all soggy and attenuated…