The Rumpus Interview with Alysia Abbott
Alysia Abbott discusses craft and love in her new memoir, Fairyland, set in the ’70s and ’80s during the AIDS crisis in San Francisco.
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FUNNY WOMEN #122: Five Disturbing Teen Trends Every Parent Should Know
Don't rely on public schools or Internetting to teach your kids about the birds and the bacilli—talk to your kids about endodyogeny today.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Erika Meitner
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Erika Meitner about her new book, Copia, writing about Detroit without writing ruin porn, form, and now-empty shopping malls.
TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #256
THE SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the San Francisco Giants.
The Rumpus Interview with Susan Minot
The Rumpus talks with Susan Minot about MFA programs, Joseph Kony, and throwing out big chunks of text.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Megan Stielstra
I made work in any little spare minute I could... Everything was scattered and all over the place, and the question was: how can you grab this moment and live it as hard as you possibly can?
The Last Book I Loved: I Sang to Survive
“And I think you’d like this,” he said, bringing out a book for me. “My mother wrote it." I thought: Oh, shit.
The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
Dispatches from Gaza and a poet named Israel. A book of talented children and a book of sexually abused children. It's all here in Rumpus Books.
Second Chance
Complete strangers often ask me how I got my name. They think this is an acceptable question. But for me, for the longest time, it was like being asked to tell the origin story of a scar.
The Rumpus Interview with Nayomi Munaweera
Nayomi Munaweera discusses Sri Lanka, its brutal Civil War, and writing a novel about two artists with their identities wrapped up in two different countries, Sri Lanka and America.
Why I Chose Michael Bazzett’s You Must Remember This
Camille Dungy discusses why she selected Michael Bazzett's forthcoming You Must Remember This for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
Spotlight: Heather Simon
Process Comics is a convergence of visual translations of Spanish poetry and personal essay.