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Life in Fiction
I write for the same reason I read: to free fall into a story and live in that world for a while. My novels begin in tiny glimmers—of character, story,…
The Rumpus Interview with Tom Bartek
Born in 1932 in Omaha, Nebraska, artist Tom Bartek’s career is the tale of a man and a city, and proof positive that, in fact, you can go home again
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #153
INFINITY ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing infinity.
The Measure of What Is Possible
In 1998, I was 12 and at home a lot. Two years into a spree of hospitalizations for asthma, my lungs and I were not on the best terms. I…
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Ilie Ruby
The women in The Salt God’s Daughter call themselves outlaws. And who better equipped than outlaws to teach us something about love and protection, identity and desire?
Reelings #3: THE IMPOSTER
I’m going to go ahead and spoil the entire plot of Bart Layton’s documentary The Imposter, but only because the film does in its first opening minutes. Why? Because the…
Different Racisms II: On Jeremy Lin and Singular Models
I was never able to have that moment, which I realized other kids had, where the character seemed to be me. I was always aware that I was reading about other people.
The Week in Greed #14: My Job Is Not to Worry About Those People
I remember that it was a sunny day in El Paso, as it almost always was, and I was upstairs with my girlfriend in our dusty apartment when we heard…
Walk With Me
At the edges of the Earth was Lintukoto, the home of the water birds who brought souls to newly born humans and snatched them away at the moment of death.…