The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Proof of Loss
As her new pregnancy progresses, Emily Rapp explores the human choices of survival and happiness after the wreckage.
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The Rumpus Interview with Patricia Lockwood
Patricia Lockwood, poet and author of the infamous "Rape Joke," talks about her book Balloon Pop Outlaw Black, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s influence on her writing, and what fame means for poets in the age of social media.
The Rumpus Review of American Hustle
This is a movie that wants to be about truth and lies, and the nature of both. It wants to be about the ubiquity of the con. And it wants to be about the authenticity that can somehow grow in an environment of utter fakery.
Coats
I had my first affair when I was twenty and didn’t own a lot of nice clothes yet. I have a photo he took of me, sitting on a plastic chair outside an abandoned steel mill. In it, I’m wearing a coat with some kind of gray weave, something smaller than houndstooth. It fit me but didn’t; I wasn’t old enough to know how to wear it.
Make/Work Episode 3: Katie Bachler
In Episode 3 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain talks with artist/educator Katie Bachler. Bachler is based in Southern California and her work is centered on our connections to place and to each other. She recently…
The Rumpus Interview with Edwidge Danticat
For our first interview of 2014, The Rumpus sits down with the luminous Edwidge Danticat to discuss the staying power of the short story, the impact of resistance, statelessness and Dominican-Haitian relations, and giving yourself permission to write.
New Year’s Resolutions
New Year's Resolutions from Yumi Sakugawa include finding the bear in the stars and the lotus in the fire. What are your resolutions?
Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Billy Hayes
Billy Hayes, the writer of Midnight Express, candidly discusses his memoir about escaping from a Turkish prison in the 1970s, the pros and cons of having your story adapted by Hollywood, and what the War on Drugs has meant for incarceration.
Why I Chose Jenny Browne’s Dear Stranger for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Camille Dungy on juggling, balance, and getting lost in Jenny Browne's latest poetry collection, Dear Stranger. Click here to join the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #214
COTTON CANDY ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing cotton candy.
Homo Homini Lupus Est: The Rumpus Review of The Wolf of Wall Street
This movie is not a critique. It's an advertisement for capitalism and its salacious, delectable greeds.