Why I Love the Rumpus Book Club
Being a part of an online community comprised of people all around the world is a very odd feeling. You know the other members so well, yet not at all.
Rumpus Originals
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What Part Are You Now?
Harrison’s style is spare and evocative, more expressive than Hemingway but less misogynistic, more accessible than Thoreau. Honest.
Albums of Our Lives: the Mountain Goats’ The Coroner’s Gambit
make me young again / make me well When I listen to the Mountain Goats I always hear traveling—a ceaseless forward momentum.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #92: Your Invisible Inner Terrible Someone
That mystery is not the curse of our existence; it’s the wonder.
Against an Ethical Machine
Rejected by the early Soviet state, Sigizmund Krhizhanovsky published only nine stories in his lifetime; luckily his novel The Letter Killers Club is now available in English.
The Eyeball #42: Talking to Tom Nissley About The Most Dangerous Game
Last year my friend Tom Nissley appeared on Jeopardy!, winning eight straight games, which allowed him to quit his job as a Books editor at Amazon
THE LONELY VOICE #14: Isaac Babel, Every Grief Soaked Word
I mourn him like a lost brother. I’ve no right to say this. It’s ridiculous. Yet some voices, we convince ourselves, can’t be lived without.
Readers Report: Leftovers
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Leftovers.”
It’s Pigsty I
Nomura plays with language in radical and diverse ways, employing subtleties of rhythm, semantics, image, gender, punctuation, and repetition, often all within the same short stanza.