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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jeffrey Pethybridge
Jeffrey Pethybridge discusses his collection, Striven, The Bright Treatise, with The Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
The Other Side of Nowhere
Our better life started in a small cockroach-infested apartment on the side of a highway in San Antonio, Texas. My mother’s homesickness was unbearable, and we almost went back to Poland. What some may not understand is that this pursuit of a better life breaks you.
Johns, Marks, Tricks, and Chickenhawks: The Rumpus Interview with Chester Brown
Chester Brown is an award-winning Toronto cartoonist who wrote the graphic memoir Paying For It
The Last City I Loved: Omaha, Nebraska
One can live and work in an unfettered way, or at least a way less fettered than is possible in any major metropolis.
Famous Rapes #1: Old Master Paintings
This is the first in a series of retrospective collage art focusing on myth, stories, historic events, and cultural attitudes about rape as seen through different time periods.
The Rumpus Interview with Jess Walter
Novelist and short story writer Jess Walter explores fathers and sons, addiction, creating a Statistical Abstract, finding inspiration in the grocery store, and writing from a pure place of empathy.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #187
PERSONALIZED PENS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing personalized pens.
The Rumpus Interview with Karl Briedrick of Speck Mountain
Lyrically, it’s about longing for something to change, longing for something to happen within the context of a relationship where it hasn’t felt like anything’s been happening for a long time.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: In Sickness and in Health
Years after losing her entire family, the author takes a romantic vacation in paradise and instead must confront the physical manifestations of her grief.
Saturday Rumpus Comic: The Dead Spider King
Last night I had a dream about my dead friend. He committed suicide six year ago. This was my third dream about him.