An Inside Passage
Kurt Caswell’s award-winning essays channel Phillip Lopate and David Foster Wallace, while exploring the plight of a “mountain man” stuck in a paved-over world.
Rumpus Originals
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Paperback Writer: The Rumpus Interview With Michael Greenberg
The problem is that there is no clear path to literary success, no way to know what you’re supposed to do.
A Vestige Stirred By Light
The Next Settlement has a rock-solid American quality that compares favorably to William Carlos Williams. Think Plymouth and ocean waves constantly changing, hypnotic in part because of the mysteries beneath.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #22
Crazily enough, darling, I think you’re doing what you need to do.
“Everything Looks Different Today”
While there are The Last Book(s) I Loved, there are also The Books I Have Always Loved, among them "A Giacometti Portrait," written by James Lord in 1965.
Swinging Modern Sounds #13: On Loops
These lines depend on your having a working knowledge of the New York City suburbs.
Crown of Sonnets
An anthology of stories from the new Russia shows the continuity between contemporary writers and their canonical predecessors
Steve Almond’s Bad Poetry Corner #2: Viper
Writing wretched verse so you don’t have to since 1995. Viper She told me how, as a girl, she slept each night with a different stuffed animal to make the…
Afghan Star: A Conversation with Tamim Ansary
Pop Idol has been widely imitated throughout the world [American Idol here in the states] , but Afghanistan is possibly the only place where the mere existence of a televised,…
A History of Violence
In After the Fire a Small Still Voice, love is a difficult, vulnerable salvation—its troubled characters aren’t sure it’s worth the risk.
The Rumpus Interview With John Vanderslice at Tiny Telephone
The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that’s a great thing. We’ll be fine. Tiny Telephone will be fine.