FUNNY WOMEN #125: My Almost Valentine
Also, when I said I don’t like Mexican food, I only meant that I dislike the way it tastes in my mouth and the way I feel after consuming it.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Why Jihadists Love Postmodern Poetry
David Biespiel's Poetry Wire returns with a powerful take on fascism and violence and postmodernism.
TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #270
THE PUPPY BOWL ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing The Puppy Bowl.
Swinging Modern Sounds #62: Stillness as Metaphor
I am after a music that renders life as it is, and which invites in the intermittent pulsations of life.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Chloe Caldwell
Chloe Caldwell talks about her new novella Women, gender nectar, break-up grief, and her impatience with analyzing the fiction/nonfiction divide.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Stars Hollow, Revisited
They always find their way back to one another again.
This Week in Short Fiction: Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo
Probably more than anything else, sheer curiosity propels readers through [Silvina Ocampo's] stories.
The Rumpus Interview with Josh Weil
Writer Josh Weil talks about his novel, The Great Glass Sea, magical realism vs. science fiction, Russia’s experiments with mirrored satellites, his early days as an aspiring playwright, and how he uses fear as a fuel to accomplish his work.
A Super Bowl Preview for People Who Don’t Know Football (2015 Edition)
Like an all-night rager in the apartment upstairs or a crying infant on a red-eye, the Super Bowl is one of those ineluctable public occurrences that’s seemingly impossible to stop and difficult to ignore.
Make/Work Episode 27: Saul Melman
In episode 27 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with emergency room physician and visual artist Saul Melman about the parallels between creative practice and caregiving.
Waved Albatross
How do we make the good thoughts stay? Can we make them stay? It's so hard to keep in mind the slivers of time that change our lives for the better.
The Rumpus Interview with Robert Repino
Robert Repino talks about his debut novel, Mort(e), the publishing industry, science fiction and literary fiction, writing about religion, and how to write about complex chemical ant languages.