Margarine: A Public and Personal History
When I think of sitting at the kitchen table as a child eating dinner, I don’t have memories of luscious homemade foods.
Rumpus Originals
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The Rumpus Interview with Curtis Sittenfeld
Reading Curtis Sittenfeld’s carefully-observed novels, we get the impression that family is the most common form of natural disaster.
The Puzzle Factory
But their eyes, reasonably, come back to me for their startling brilliance, even on drugs, and for their alertness and their knowing.
The Rumpus Interview with Jodi Angel
Jodi Angel talks about her new collection of short stories, You Only Get Letters From Jail, defining driving experiences, and the vulnerable sexuality of teenage boys.
Famous Rapes #3: Lynching and “The One Crime”
The KKK, The Birth of a Nation, and the origins of The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching.
The Rumpus Interview with Frank H. Wu
Frank H. Wu, the Chancellor and Dean of UC Hastings College of the Law, talks about writing, race, assimilation, his hometown of Detroit, and the similarities between the Vincent Chin and Trayvon Martin cases.
A Good Guy With a Gun, or The Frank Castle Doctrine, or The Punisher Applies For A New Job
I was always taught that if you have a gun, you better produce it.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #192
CIGARETTE$ 4 GOLD ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Cigarette$ 4 Gold.
The Slut-Shaming of Anthony Weiner
What would it look like to slut shame a middle-aged, heterosexual man?
The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Matthew Specktor
Matthew Specktor spent the better part of a year writing one of the most captivating novels about Los Angeles that I’ve read. I know I’m not alone in this assessment.
Against Explanation, or How to Write Fiction About Mormons (Or Anybody)
The kind of knowledge that good fiction can impart is incomplete knowledge, knowledge that admits its gaps and urges a certain caution because of them