The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jeff Parker
"The book became the story of Igor, as a metaphor for Russia, in crisis. While Igor is not ... some kind of Putin-era everyman, he is, like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, a man for his time and place."
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On the Road Again
What gives the road movie (or, more broadly, the epic voyage) its staying power across cultures and time is an intrinsic narrative structure with a built-in beginning and end in the form of a starting point and destination.
The Rumpus Interview with Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman discusses the challenges of writing a series, why his 20s were a lost decade, and his relationship with his readers.
Spotlight: Bue Bredsdorff’s “The House in Sønderhå”
“The House in Sønderhå” is the first from a series of mini comics about places cartoonist Bue Bredsdorff has lived.
Make/Work Episode 18: Lisa Ward
In Episode 18 of The Rumpus's Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with artist and architect Lisa Ward.
The Rumpus Interview with Chris Stroffolino
Poet and musician Chris Stroffolino talks about his new album Griffith Park, recording with the Silver Jews, and life inside his piano van.
Paper Trumpets #8: Perfect Ghost
I love how paper from that century—or anything over 100 years old—ages and changes color around the edges.
Behind the Caves
Maybe all those rebuffs—the few I gave, the many I received—were just ways of protecting ourselves, those nascent beings so unsure of who we were or what we wanted to become.
The Rumpus Interview with Will Chancellor
Debut novelist Will Chancellor talks about successful satire, destroying drafts of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall to get to the finished version, and the advantages of fiction over competing media.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #250
THE END ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the end.
Bowie by Simon Critchley
Bowie was the being who permitted a powerful emotional connection and freed them to become some other kind of self, something freer, more queer, more honest, more open, and more exciting.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: We Are Not Dead
"The wants and desires of dead people, the one’s they didn’t get to fulfill—that’s what slays me...What if they wanted more? What if they didn’t want to leave behind the things they left behind?"