Rumpus Originals
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Conversations With Literary Ex-Cons: Piper Kerman
Piper Kerman is the author of the memoir Orange is the New Black, a story of how, years after running money for an international heroin gang, she was indicted, convicted, and did time in a federal women’s prison.
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Here Comes the Girl
I didn’t analyze production levels or consider marketing strategies. I didn’t say to myself, “Tonight you’re going to get with the jack-off program.” I was a dime-a-dozen girl doing a customer service job, and that job demanded more and more…
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The Next Letter in the Mail: Roxane Gay
The next Letter In The Mail, going out this Friday, is from Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay!
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #157
THE EARWIG ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world.
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Lamp Day
On Lamp Day we try not dreamily but systematically to remember it all. I do it by thinking about the hidden reasons I love something small.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Summer of Ana
A beautiful Guatemalan exchange student materializes one summer, and a daughter must confront her enigmatic father’s secrets and lies.
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The Whole World, Opened Up
I don’t really want to know what a man looks like when his face has been cannibalized. I don’t really want to know about this dog-breastfeeding woman. I don’t want to be in the position of being able to judge…
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HERE’S WHAT WE THINK OF YOUR “CLASSIC”…
Every decade or so a new style of popular music, played by a new generation of musicians, comes along. These styles are often truly original—genuine breaks with the pop music of the past, like industrial music, disco, or hip-hop
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Jane Fondas I Have Known
However I came to possess the magazine, I looked at it often, if with a smoldering shame. Unlike what I could find on television, the pictures were clear and shiny, and seeing women in bikinis showed me parts of the…
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Sense of Place #4: Tao Lin, NYU Library
This photograph shows me standing outside my house, which looks weirdly much bigger here than it actually is when you see it in person.
