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The Rumpus Interview with Tom Barbash
Tom Barbash talks shop about writing short stories, why one person's "unlikeable" character may be another's "lovable," and what makes writers dangerous.
Thank You Much
What do you want when you are young and itching with anticipation for the life you’ve always imagined yourself living? Everything. You want everything.
The Rumpus Interview with Audrey Petty
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #199
TOUPEES ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing toupees.
Missed #1: The Lucinda Rosenfeld Problem
In the July 3, 2000 New Yorker, the debut fiction issue, there was a photo of a young woman on the steps of a brownstone. Her story was terrifying, erotic, and not quite like anything I'd read before.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Moon Over Egypt
In America we are explicitly taught that a healthy kind of love is a removed love...Love is the area outside of suffering, not within it...For me the experience of love has always been more primal than this...love is fire. It’s not a sigh; it’s a wail, one part caress and one part claw.
Love Me Anyway by Tiffany Hawk
Now and then it’s nice to read about characters whose lives actually revolve around the grueling demands of work.
Diamonds and Rust: Summer Music Fests, Small Luxuries, and the Open Road
Those rare flashes of vivid scenes burned in my memory, which create the mythos for my five-day adventure journeying to Chicago for Pitchfork Music Festival 2013.
HORN! REVIEWS: In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods
Another wonderful illustrated review from HORN!
Love Love Love
“You could have the baby," he said. "Best case scenario, it would absolutely destroy my relationship, like completely burn it to the ground, and then we would get together. It would be hard, but I would do it."
Why I Chose Bangalore by Kerry James Evans for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
I wasn't thinking about the Syrian Civil War and the US's possible involvement in it when I chose Kerry James Evans's debut collection, Bangalore , for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club