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The Rumpus Interview with Sabina Sciubba
Ted Wilson talks to Sabina Sciubba, lead singer of Brazilian Girls, about naked ladies, the apocalypse, and Home Alone 2.
A Girl and Her Car
A car is a way of being in the same body—four heartbeats speeding towards a common destination.
The Rumpus Interview with Alex Dimitrov and Kate Durbin
Alex Dimitrov and Kate Durbin interview each other about place and poetics and poetry in performance, as well as poetry in LA and New York, and using culture as a prop.
For Lack of Anything Better
The curse of being a writer is knowing other people. I need other people (to write about) but I can’t handle other people (the way I can literary characters).
TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #255
HUMMINGBIRDS ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing hummingbirds.
Sound & Vision: David Barnes
In Sound & Vision #8, multimedia artist and performer David Barnes discusses his work with the band of Montreal, art as a career, and writing a graphic novel about a baby growing inside a pregnant male football player.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Processing Children
The courtroom smells of talcum powder. On this afternoon's docket, we have thirty-four children. Thirty-four out of 35,000 or 57,000 or 90,000 kids who have crossed our borders without permission since last October, depending on which source you trust to make sense of what doesn't.
The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
Writing the book on Gatsby, nostalgia for Land's End, and a new "American poetry playlist"—all in the Rumpus Books this week.
What About Bob? and My Bad Years
It seems to me that the mentally ill are almost always relegated to the role of visionary, antihero, schlock-horror fiend, or crass comedic foil, while we in turn submit to a familiar sense of awe, levity or revulsion.
The Rumpus Interview with Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell talks about her new novel, Landline, the writing advice she refuses to follow, and young adult fiction.
The Rumpus Book Club Chat With Joshua Shenk
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Joshua Wolf Shenk about his new book, Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs, creative intimacy, how John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked together, and the myth of the solo genius.