I Was a Teenage Arsonist
My school was on fire. It was exhilarating. Fire trucks were whipping their sirens around, and my whole high school was out on the football field, chattering excitedly, whispering in…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #173
WET NAPS ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing wet naps.
The Rumpus Interview with Joe Mozingo
Journalist Joe Mozingo digs deep into his ancestral history to uncover the origin behind his surname, and discovers it's one of the few African names to survive not only the Middle Passage, but the history of American slavery itself.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Object Lesson
Amy Botula traces her stockpile of hoarded condom wrappers to Winnicott's "transitional objects" and the beloved childhood toy that helped her survive early losses.
Saturday Rumpus Comic: Imposter Moon
At night the coyote cries because no one seems to notice that his beloved moon has been replaced with an imposter moon.
Readers Report: Broken Promises
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Broken Promises.”
The Last Book I Loved: Cataclysm Baby
Cataclysm Baby, a short story collection by Matt Bell, explores fatherhood under the guise of a book of baby names. The innocent abecedary form belies the book’s dark contents.
ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: RUN DMC’S RAISING HELL
It was a cassette copy with no case, and my dad gave it to me a couple of years after he’d moved out. I was about nine. I knew enough about…
The Rumpus Interview with Tom Reiss
Journalist and biographer Tom Reiss sits down and explores the idea that, "however obscure his subjects might be, he [is] a writer first and foremost, obsessed with getting the details right while crafting a story that could propel even a reluctant reader across unfamiliar terrain."
Swinging Modern Sounds #42: Hey Man, I Thought That You Were Dead
They Might Be Giants had that quality, the glorious-about-human-life quality on December 30th
Fabricating Fear
We searched for a lake monster on the shores of Lake Superior. This was sometime last July. My wife Meredith, son Henry, and I had headed north from Eau Claire,…