Between Botany and Alchemy: A Return to Return to Oz
This was a world I wished I'd created myself.
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The Rumpus Interview with Julie Schumacher
Julie Schumacher discusses going extinct, iPads and iPhones, epistolary novels, and why the number of MFA programs in the U.S. is a non-issue.
Damage: The Soul-Crushing Science of High-End Bra Shopping
What did it mean to be damaged? Beyond repair? Short of surgery, there was no going back. More importantly, back to what?
Make/Work Episode 19: Angela C. Villa and Thollem McDonas
In episode 19 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with documentarian Angela C. Villa and musician Thollem Macdonas.
Paper Trumpets #9: The Boy and the Kangaroo
The latest installment of Paper Trumpets feature two collages stemming from one LIFE Magazine image.
The Rumpus Interview with Thomas Page McBee
The Rumpus talks to contributor Thomas Page McBee about his new book, Man Alive, heteronormativity, getting mugged, living in New York City, and what it really means to be a man.
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jericho Brown
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Jericho Brown about his book The New Testament, elegies, childhood, and the size of his forehead.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #252
DOLPHIN TALE 2 ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Dolphin Tale 2.
The Rumpus Interview with David Bezmozgis
The Rumpus talks to David Bezmozgis about Israel, making fact into fiction, politics in novels, and his new book, The Betrayers.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Casa Azul Cripple
"I wanted to be sexual/sexualized, but not fetishized. But was becoming someone’s fetish the only way? How was being fetishized different than being desired for having a unique, unrepeatable shape...or would the one leg always and forever be the only thing that mattered?"
The Last Book I Loved: Krabat
1982 was a shitty year. I was 9 years old and in the 4th grade in Appleton, Wisconsin. My parents were going through a nasty divorce, the kind of thing you see on Jerry Springer.