In episode 23 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with the artist/activist Katherine Ball about the importance of the “yes” and the “no” and the poetry in creative activism.
Brian Turner discusses his new memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, the Iraq War, poetry and prose, and his family's long history of serving in the military.
Caitlin Moran chats with the Rumpus Book Club about how Wolverhampton has changed over the years, the forthcoming film version of her new novel How to Build a Girl, chapatis, and how Blur hogs the pool table.
There is a lot to learn from Vashti Bunyan, therefore, about how to live a self-designed life, and how to be unapologetic and decisive about the habit of songwriting.
When she becomes pregnant while grieving her newly dead father, Amy Monticello rejects the comforting notions she's offered about completing the cycle of life.
I’m from South Texas. I’ve taken Chicano literature courses. I’ve helped organize symposiums featuring Mexican and Mexican-American authors. But I had never heard of Amado Muro.
The film was not risky, entirely creative, or a completely necessary addition, but it was a fun sort of “update” for fans of the original Dumb and Dumber.