Rumpus Originals
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The Rumpus Interview with Blake Butler
Blake Butler is the author of There Is No Year (Harper Perennial, 2011), Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books, 2010), and Ever (Calamari Press, 2009). He is the editor of HTMLGIANT, Lamination Colony, and No Colony. His writing has appeared widely online…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #74: Ten Angry Boys
When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair.
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Zazen
Beautiful language builds the captivating apocalyptic world in Vanessa Veselka’s debut Zazen, the first title from new publisher Red Lemonade.
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The Last Poem I Loved: “To My Twenties” by Kenneth Koch
“Only this do you know for sure: time is an ellipsis until it is not.”
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THE LONELY VOICE #11: Eudora Welty, Total Bad Ass
Greatest American short story writer? Ever? For me, it’s not even an interesting question. Welty in a landslide.
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The Hokum of Her Clothes
[O]ne of Laux’s strengths is her willingness to break through those poetic walls so many of us construct. She seems to want no distance between herself and her reader.
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Super Hot Prof on Student Word Sex: Jane Roper
Talk me through the class in which we met. Anything you can remember that doesn’t involve how poorly I dressed.
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Where I Write #9: A Cabin on the Lakefront
I stopped counting when I reached eighteen moves. That was a few moves ago. I am very good at packing my life into boxes.
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In This Light
In This Light, a collection of Melanie Rae Thon’s short stories, shows the writer’s shifts in the last twenty years, while reminding us of her powerful, haunting storytelling.