Rumpus Originals
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Roy Kesey
The Rumpus Book Club talks with Roy Kesey about Pacazo, Faulkner, historiography, and cheap cab rides. This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion. Every month The Rumpus Book Club hosts a discussion online with the book club…
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The Whole World Clanked Like an Iron Shovel
The horror of watching the self separate from the self—the schism of self-awareness—it’s almost vertigo-inducing. Kocot’s gift as a poet is being able to explain such complexity with such uncompromised frankness.
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A Conversation with a Soldier
Note: All names have been changed. Major Mark Ross is currently home from Iraq. He has had two tours of duty and will redeploy in a year. He knows he suffers from PTSD and that returning to battle is unhealthy,…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things
Be brave enough to break your own heart.
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The Rumpus Poetry Club Interviews Kirsten Kaschock
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Kirsten Kaschock about her book A Beautiful Name for a Girl. This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with Kirsten Kaschock. Every month The Rumpus Poetry Book Club hosts…
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Corinne May Botz’s Haunted Houses
In the preface to Haunted Houses, photographer Corinne May Botz writes about seeing the ghosts of gypsies as a child: “I lay in bed stiff as a board, trying to will myself invisible, praying they would not notice me looking.”
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Of Course They’re Staring
The poems in The Book of Frank capture moments, and they don’t explain themselves. But, cumulatively, they invoke a sense of what it is like to be almost supernaturally sensitive, empathic, curious, responsive. In short: what it feels like to…
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The Rumpus Interview with Mary Miller
Mary Miller is the author of a chapbook of flash fiction, Less Shiny, and her debut short story collection, Big World, was published by Hobart in 2009.
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The Rumpus Interview with Michael David Lukas
At first, I thought he was going to be a pornographer. I’d received a scholarship to attend a writers’ conference in Napa Valley and had a cheap flight to San Francisco, but I still had no ride from the airport…
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All in the Family
Ellen Meeropol’s debut novel tackles bizarre cult rituals, political violence, drug abuse, infanticide, and the Klan.