The Rumpus Interview with Roy Kesey
Roy Kesey's most recent book, Any Deadly Thing, is a collection of stories as adventurous, playful, and strange, as it is profoundly moving and insightful.
Rumpus Originals
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Colt 1911: A Partial Timeline
“Eli. The gun is in my bedroom. There are bullets in there, too. I don’t need to worry about you guys, do I?”
The Rumpus Interview with Peter Squires
Peter Squires describes playing in bands as his “favorite social activity,” and by that standard he is a very social fellow.
Three Breaths
On some of my lowest days, she lets me into her office, and I submerge myself in the world of her wild past and how she overcame it
The Rumpus Interview with John Brandon
My favorite thing about John Brandon’s writing are his sentences. They take weird left turns and are compelling for reasons you can’t quite name.
After a Fashion
Like a lot of men these days, the line between what I wear to go to work, to work out, and to sleep has gotten dangerously thin.
Spotlight: Dylan Glynn
Dylan Glynn meanders between the bright and the spooky in his Who Are You series.
Dispatch from the Carnival #1: The Trick is There is No Trick
We start by lighting parts of ourselves on fire that are easier to put out than our faces. Hands, to begin.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #191
THE NRA ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the NRA.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: A Painting a Week
"I’d wanted to be a writer for so long the dream was part of me, like an organ, an extra heart...Only one thing was missing. I wasn’t writing."