Rumpus Originals
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Albums of Our Lives: Gillian Welch’s Time (The Revelator)
I knew I was a pretender, too, knew it in all the ways a twenty-six-year-old can believe that she is broken and that nobody else can see how badly.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #82: The God of Doing it Anyway
I’m here not only to give you permission, but also to say that you must. There is no other way.
The Rumpus Interview with David Jay, Star of the New Documentary, (A)Sexual
This is what I expected: Jay and I were meeting to talk about the one thing that is harder to talk about than sex: not wanting to have sex. Ever.
The Solace of Preparing Fried Foods and Other Quaint Remembrances from 1960s Mississippi: Thoughts on The Help
Writing across race (or gender, sexuality, and disability) is complicated. Sometimes, it is downright messy.
Wings Wands Stars Tulle
These poems have all the instinct and fangs of a canine, and the plush, electric fur of a wolf: the intensity and sheer quality of workmanship in the poems is…
The Eyeball #41: Talking with Aimee Bender About The 400 Blows
I’ve been writing this column off and on for a few years now and I thought I’d shake it up a bit by turning it into a dialogue.
The Moon Rises
Glen Duncan’s new novel The Last Werewolf is sophisticated and horrifying and elegant and not for Young Adult readers, who would need a thesaurus, a history tutor and sedation.
The Rumpus Interview with Robert Ingersoll, the Hero of PROJECT NIM
In 1973, a psychology professor at Columbia University named Herb Terrace launched a study to see if a chimpanzee raised as a human could learn sign language.