The Rumpus Interview with Jason Anderson(!)
Jason Anderson is a prolific singer/songwriter from New England who has now settled in Brooklyn. He runs around, wild-eyed, singing at the top of his lungs about not giving up,…
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SMALL POTATOES:
Rumpled Toeskin
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Heart of Glass
Ali Shaw’s novel concerns a modern-day Midas, a cold and inhospitable island, and a young woman whose body is inexorably transforming.
The Rumpus Review of The Most Dangerous Man in America
On June 13th, 1971, in the midst of the Vietnam War, the New York Times began to publish excerpts of an internal Pentagon document that detailed the top-secret history of…
Mutations of Meaning
A first novel by playwright Jillian Weise tackles the moral and ethical questions surrounding both medical research and human relationships.
FUNNY WOMEN #17: Coming Out Letter, October 2007
Dear Professor Julie Abraham, It’s midnight, and I have to tell you about The Death of the Heart, and how Elizabeth Bowen is clever, and tragic, all at the same…
What They Forgot to Mention About Olympic Skier Julia Mancuso
This winter’s Olympics have seen the usual sentimental media saturation of weepy or aw-shucks back stories on the athletes.
A Trip to Las Vegas: The Adult Entertainment Expo
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” And thank god for that. My back had been killing me since…
The Ancient Book of Hip
The poems in The Ancient Book of Hip create a precise and evocative description of time and place; they celebrate that space, even as they have a witty undercurrent of…
The Rumpus Long Interview with Paula Fox
"I can’t write about what’s going on in the next room, fiction. I can only write what’s going on in this room, reality. Of course one invents with reality also."