Rumpus Originals
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SMALL POTATOES:
This week’s stripSmall Potatoes by Paul Madonna Click here to read The Rumpus interview with Paul Madonna Read more Small Potatoes at angrylittlepotatoes.com …
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Trans-Love Energies and the MC5: The Blazing Revolution According to John Sinclair
“Poetry never sleeps.” -John Sinclair The best music and art erupts from immense suffering and revolutionaries are guided by great feelings of love.
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Readers Report Back From… The Gift
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “The Gift.” Edited by Susan Clements:
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Other People We Married
Emma Straub’s debut collection of stories, Other People We Married, is full of quirky, thoughtful, resonating characters and has earned her comparisons with Lorrie Moore.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #79
MOUNT RUSHMORE ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Mount Rushmore.
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The Mother Who Stayed
Laura Furman’s new concerto of stories, The Mother Who Stayed, ties its parts together in an illuminating and subtle fashion.
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All Over Coffee
Out of the Grapevine… 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. On April 29th, the second and newest book, Everything is its own reward,…
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The Rest of the Story: The Rumpus Interview with Chris Tarry
I met Chris Tarry on the Thursday of AWP, on the mobbed second floor of a popular blues bar in Adams Morgan, after a friend and I had been gonged out of a literary talent show by Pam Houston.
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WELCOME TO THE TEN-IN-ONE:
The Fire EaterWhat is the Ten-in-One? Just what it sounds like. Ten acts under one tent, for one low, low price. A common configuration of the carnival sideshow. So it’s ten comics, one for each act. An extraordinary collection of freakish curiosities.…
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THE LONELY VOICE #9: We Don’t Have to Live Great Lives
I spent most of today re-reading Andre Dubus’s “Voices From the Moon”.[1] It is one of those stories. When you finish it you concentrate a little harder on your own breathing because you feel a little more alive. Because you’re reminded…