Rumpus Originals
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The Rumpus Interview with Giuseppe Andrews
Giuseppe Andrews is a filmmaker/musician who makes work like no other. Similar in fashion to John Cassavetes, he acts in films and then uses the money to fund his own movies.
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FUNNY WOMEN #73: How to Write Like a Funny Woman
Recently, I started taking improv classes at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York (founded by the high priestess of funny, Amy Poehler). During each class exercise, I’d think, “This would help my writing.” I compiled a list of writing lessons…
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A Welcome Invitation
In Francois Emmanuel’s new collection Invitation to a Voyage, the prose is elegant and refined, the subject matter heady yet accessible, and the execution nearly flawless.
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My Little Brother Ruined My Life
“Are you a masochist?” It’s the first thing Bosco asks me. He’s fourteen years old now, almost my height, 5′ 8″, creamy white skin, and a small, German nose from my stepmother’s side of the family.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #119
YOGA ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing yoga.
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Prepare Yourself Citizens!
In The Orphan Master’s Son, Adam Johnson has not only visited a nation curtained from the rest of the world, but has recreated it with compassion and humanity. The result is a relentless examination of what it means to be…
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The Rumpus Sunday Review: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Eugenides aims not just to retell the “marriage plot” novel of a former era, but, of course, to subvert it. And this, of course, he does.
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All Over Coffee #567
Don’t tell me what to doClick 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 Short History of Summer
Innovation is at the heart of these poems, and King’s ability to see through the surface to the deeper and often disconnected intricacies of life make them pleasurable and powerful to read.