No Lights, Nobody Home
Alex Taylor’s collection of stories set in Kentucky channels Southern greats like William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.
Rumpus Originals
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #30
PUPPIES ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing puppies.
The Rumpus Review of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
My name is Jeff and I’m an addict. My drug of choice: Swedish detective fiction.
Assorted Poems
Susan Wheeler manages to navigate a wide terrain of both content and form while maintaining the interconnectedness of one of the less lame concept albums ever produced.
All We Read Is Freaks
Who says that here, in the land of fluorescent signs, football mania, booming bass, and a Mouse with a compulsion to celebrate itself every few hours, a poet can’t still strike a nerve?
A Great Piece of Writing That Isn’t Famous and Has Never Been Collected in a Single-Authored Book, and Why the Hell Not?!
The reader wishes the reader had ever had such a teacher, although the teacher doesn’t seem himself to think he’s all that much of a teacher.
SMALL POTATOES:
Hippy Knife Fight
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The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos is the author of Whip Smart, a new memoir about her four years working as a professional dominatrix in a Midtown Manhattan dungeon while enrolled full time at…
An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #3
Betty Anne May, Age 80 Truth or Consequences, New Mexico “That man could turn me on by touching my little fingernail.”
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #30: Pluck It From the Floor. And Onward You Go.
It’s a funny sort of reverse logic, how every now and then your vision is clearer when you constrict rather than expand it.