The Rumpus Interview with Sarah Manguso
Poet Sarah Manguso discusses her new memoir, Ongoingness, graphomania, and how motherhood does (or doesn't) change being a writer.
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FUNNY WOMEN #127: Low-Maintenance
Hey eligible, employed, virile men of the world! Aren’t you sick of hot girls who are so high-maintenance... and don’t even realize it?
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Paul Vangelisti
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Paul Vangelisti about Amiri Baraka's S O S Poems 1961-2013, as well as Baraka's place among American writers and the ways in which his poetry and politics intersected and collided.
TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #277
SPAGHETTI ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing spaghetti.
The Rumpus Interview with Skip Horack
Skip Horack talks about his new novel, The Other Joseph, blending research with fiction, and living with the “curse of the fiction writer.”
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Words Fail
Martha Bayne runs away with the circus and finds unexpected meaning in the effort required to achieve its gaudy display. "Can it really be escapism," she asks, "if you're working so hard?"
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Cultural Constellations of Agee and Smith
But who said a chronology had to be straightforward?
Make/Work Episode 29: David Meltzer and Julie Rogers
In episode 29 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with poets David Meltzer and Julie Rogers about maintaining a long-term creative practice, the role of poetry in the US, music, and politics.
It Hurts Too Much: The Emotional Reality of Trans Murders in 2015
Are you sad? I hope so. Are you angry? You need to be. We need you to share this work.
The Rumpus Interview with Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman discusses his debut novel Green on Blue, fighting with the Marine Corps in the Second Battle of Fallujah, and being labeled as a journalist .
One American Death Threat and Disaster
It is difficult to tell when Goldsmith is being genuine. That is the nature of his work, which he has suggested people don’t need to read to understand, and of his online presence.