Rumpus Originals
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The Rumpus Interview with Rachel Lloyd
Rachel Lloyd talks about her book, Girls Like Us, founding Girls Education and Mentoring Service (GEMS), and why she was hesitant to write a memoir.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #125
MY MAGNIFYING GLASS ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my magnifying glass.
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From the Ruins
“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate . . . but with his other hand he can note down what he…
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The Shape-Shifter
In his memoir, God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked, Darrell Hammond tells his story with a remarkable candor that seems designed not to shock or titillate, but to allow for a full and honest rendering of a scary…
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All Over Coffee #573
Someone asked, so…Click image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press. The second and newest book, Everything is its own…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Stephanie Vaughn
In January of 2001, optimistic and slightly at sea at the start of my final college semester, I walked into the University of Wisconsin’s student bookstore in search of an anthology edited by a writer whose name I’d never heard,…
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Sunday Fiction: Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog (excerpt)
When I awoke, I did not recognize the window. The snow had stopped and moonlight slanted through the glass. I could not make out the words, but I heard my father’s voice filling up the house. I tiptoed down the…
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Trees Are Blooming Into Bright Lightbulbs
Schomburg’s newest book, Fjords, Vol. 1 holds true to this idea of finding familiarity in a parallel consciousness. Just because the poems often work in a seemingly private dreamscape, doesn’t mean you aren’t invited to into the strangeness, asked to…
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The Whole Vortex of Home
[Peter] Gizzi’s particular gift is to posit that shifting location where senses meet the terrible and the sublime, where political portent or its brittle actualities announce themselves in various configurations.
