The Rumpus Interview With Will Potter
In 2007, I was put on Homeland Security’s Watch List. True, my brother had just been arrested. He had been a member of the underground Animal Liberation Front, freeing wild…
Rumpus Originals
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What Began As a Love Letter…
Warmed and Bound, an anthology of neo-noir fiction, offers 38 dark and beautiful stories from Matt Bell, Blake Butler, and others.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #88: The Human Scale
What if you allowed your God to exist in the simple words of compassion others offer to you?
The Lobby: An Interview with Andrew
For the past two years, I have worked as a desk clerk at a motel in Austin. During the busiest shift of the week, Friday evenings, my shift overlaps with…
Observe as Meat Falls
This collection is not kind or nice, but the brutality of his honesty, the blunt force of his handling of subject matter, and most importantly, his emotional transparency, make this…
Census, 1980
An excerpt from Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner, our November Rumpus Book Club selection (which is already receiving wonderful reviews, so now’s a great time to join…
Why not read Moby-Dick?
Historian Nathaniel Philbrick lays out a convincing, if scholarly, case for why Moby-Dick is relevant to modern audiences.
Spotlight: An Interview with Tom Gauld
Tom Gauld talks about art, publishing, the balance between commissions and passion projects, and his upcoming book, Goliath.
Swinging Modern Sounds #32: An Interview with Mike Doughty
Mike Doughty is a singer-songwriter of a particularly urban sort, whose compositions, though guitar-based and often not terribly far from the ideal of the busker, are, nonetheless, cross-pollinated by just about everything audible in New York City...