That Sick Feeling
Janice Shapiro’s characters see that the game of womanhood has no winners—and some are frantic for an escape that they do not find.
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The Rumpus Interview with Quest for Kindness
Quest for Kindness seemed, to me, like career suicide, but in a warm and self-sacrificing way.
Pastries, Cowboy Music / That Kind of Shit
Reading, and re-reading these poems, you’ll find lines which are so outrageous, hilarious, and true that they get lodged in your head, like songs; and, you’ll find yourself quoting the…
The Rumpus Interview with Maile Meloy
“Short stories are hard because you have to start over every time, but they're what I did first. I like living in a novel, as a writer and as a reader, but sometimes you can't see your way out.”
FUNNY WOMEN #35: A Southern Mad Lib
Insert your own words in the spaces below to make a wacky story!
He, the People
A legal scholar warns of presidential power-mongering and calls for a national Day of Deliberation.
The Rumpus Interview With Dinaw Mengestu
Dinaw Mengestu’s name may be hard to pronounce (dih-NOW men-GUESS-too), but you’ll soon be hearing it a lot more. Earlier this year, the Ethiopian-born author was named to The New Yorker’s…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #57
MY COUCH ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my couch.
In a Strange Room
“In every story of obsession there is only one character. I am writing about myself alone… for this reason I have always failed in every love, which is to say…
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Stephen Elliott
“We all think we’re retaliating,” Elliott writes. “We all think our actions are justified by someone else’s actions. But actually we’re responsible for what we do.”