Cheaters: A Life in Eyewear
When I was nine I faked a vision test to get a pair of pale pink cat eyed beauties. Because I wanted them.
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“Adams,” from Life Is Short—Art Is Shorter: In Praise of Brevity
A (very short) story by George Saunders, with an introduction by David Shields and Elizabeth Cooperman, excerpted from Life Is Short—Art Is Longer: In Praise of Brevity.
The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Manguso
Poet Sarah Manguso discusses her new memoir, Ongoingness, graphomania, and how motherhood does (or doesn't) change being a writer.
FUNNY WOMEN #127: Low-Maintenance
Hey eligible, employed, virile men of the world! Aren’t you sick of hot girls who are so high-maintenance... and don’t even realize it?
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Paul Vangelisti
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Paul Vangelisti about Amiri Baraka's S O S Poems 1961-2013, as well as Baraka's place among American writers and the ways in which his poetry and politics intersected and collided.
TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #277
SPAGHETTI ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing spaghetti.
The Rumpus Interview with Skip Horack
Skip Horack talks about his new novel, The Other Joseph, blending research with fiction, and living with the “curse of the fiction writer.”
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Words Fail
Martha Bayne runs away with the circus and finds unexpected meaning in the effort required to achieve its gaudy display. "Can it really be escapism," she asks, "if you're working so hard?"
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Cultural Constellations of Agee and Smith
But who said a chronology had to be straightforward?
Spotlight: Small Stories #6
Small Stories is a series of journalistic comics about the lives of everyday people in Israel and Palestine in the summer of 2014.