The Rumpus Book Club Chat With Roxane Gay
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Roxane Gay about her new novel An Untamed State, fairy tales, and the reality of violence that women face every day, everywhere in the world.
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Baseball with Mister Way
When summer arrived, the butler for the newcomer the villagers called “Mister Way”—they couldn’t pronounce Hemingway—came into town to fetch the boys. He left the house and followed the long drive to the gate, turned into the village, gathered the boys from their homes and led them back to the Finca, where they found a baseball diamond marked out in the grass.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 5
There's a unitary circulation between poet and reader. The poet dwells in the gap between dream and waking, and the reader is offered entryway to become alive and enlivened.
The Rumpus Interview with Corinne Goria
Author and veteran Voice of Witness editor Peter Orner sits down with Invisible Hands: Voices From the Global Economy editor Corinne Goria to talk about putting the book together, economic interdependency, and the complex human stories behind everyday items.
Swinging Modern Sounds #55: Meredith Monk, Composer
Rick Moody talks with composer Meredith Monk about her new album Monk: Piano Songs, the physical movement integral to music-making, and what the future holds after 50 years of performing.
Three Things I Have Never Told Anyone
Does it seem now like I believe in God and he is a comfort to me? I don’t, and he isn’t. And yet this story is a comfort to me.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Madison Young
"That is why the feminist porn movement is so critical. It's not just about changing the way in which porn is made but also advocating for love of our own bodies, advocating for love of our own desires, and our partners’ desires."
One Giant Cliché
When I became a father myself, I swore my son would never feel my absence like that—not if I could help it. I’d talk to him. I’d listen, ask questions. I’d teach him things, too, and share in the joys of his discoveries. It didn’t occur to me that what he might need would be something entirely different.
Where I Write #27: Now In Silence, Mute
Now in silence, mute, a place still quiet/within reason, ear-protected, I hear/the flow and pump of blood.
The Rumpus Review of Calipatria
At the heart of the short film Calipatria is an ever-present sense of malice that hangs over the landscape and surrounds this young woman, on her own in this ominous desert town.
The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Brockmeier
Writer Kevin Brockmeier talks about his memoir A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, the painful nature of seventh grade, treading the line between fact and fiction, and why he would save Karen Russell in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.
Spotlight: Summer Pierre, Part 1
Illustrator, cartoonist, and writer Summer Pierre takes us to visit Penny the elephant at the San Francisco zoo.