Back Out of All This Now I Am An Animal Full of Music: Noelle Kocot’s The Bigger World
“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?” — Emily Webb Thornton Wilder’s Our Town
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A Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football
Once a year, an awful lot of people are forced to pretend to care about football.
The Rumpus Unreview: Known and Unknown, by Donald Rumsfeld
An 800-page memoir from the former Secretary of Defense tells an old, familiar story—so familiar that our reviewer didn’t even have to read it.
SPOTLIGHT SERIES:
James Jajac
Silver Hell is the work of James Jajac, which he sums up as being “the process of self-destructing and the gradual process of rebuilding your life.”
A Conversation So Imperfectly Understood
Rosanna Warren’s tautly elegant poetry in her collection Ghost in a Red Hat captivates me. Warren does not aim for obscure language and obstructed meaning; she carefully and clearly reveals…
The Rumpus Interview with W. Kamau Bell
W. Kamau Bell wants stand-up comedy to be seen as an art form enjoyed by hip, educated people. He’s on a mission to raise the IQ and literacy of comedy…
The Fates Will Find Their Way
“It seemed, some days, that life was nothing more than a tally of the people who’d left us behind.”
Happy with Crocodiles
A short story by Jim Shepard, author of the forthcoming collection You Think That’s Bad, our Rumpus Book Club pick for February. *** Her envelope had hearts where the o’s…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #72
SHORTS ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing shorts.
The Rumpus Original Combo with Deb Olin Unferth: Part 1, The Interview
“For years I was angry at myself for having run away with a man. Later, I couldn't figure out why I wasn't that person anymore. Why couldn't I find someone to give me an identity again?”