Swinging Modern Sounds #61: Songs for the Alliterative at Heart
Michael Hearst has come a long way from the guy who played plastic wind instruments on Seventh Avenue, to an admirably creative and original adulthood.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Only Thing That Matters
The lake was moody, like us. It never looked the same; it was always changing its mind.
The Saturday Rumpus Interview with Noah Berlatsky
Noah Berlatsky on his new book, Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Martson/Peter Comics, blogging, and reconciling feminism and bondage.
The Rumpus Interview with Steph Cha
Steph Cha talks about her new novel, Beware Beware, writing compelling and complex Korean American characters, and what reading a book has in common with a level in a video game.
The Last Book I Loved: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
I couldn’t wait to read it, but I was also infinitely patient. It’s that delayed gratification thing. I’m a sucker for it, and there are books that are worth the wait.
The Rumpus Interview with Gina Nahai
Gina Nahai talks about her fifth novel, The Luminous Heart of Jonah S., Iran and Los Angeles, and the possibility of a long-sought-after peace in the Middle East.
Make/Work Episode 25: Jim Ragen
In episode 25 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with writer Jim Ragen, who has been working on a five-volume novel spanning generations of life in the Dakotas.
Readers Report: Remorse
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Remorse.”
Paper Birds
Clearing those pages plain, I'd make time fall away and distance shorten impossibly, fold upon fold, until the page was no longer a record of our histories but an origami swan.
A Manifesto for Bad Poetry
If guided well, no-one who sets out to write a bad poem is going to accidentally write an excellent one.
Wild Are the Winds to Meet You
On September 18th, the night Scotland voted on its independence from the UK, I was standing on the porch of a Civil War-era mansion after a reading. It was storming.
TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #265
MY CHRISTMAS PUPPY ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my Christmas puppy.