Rumpus Original
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Good Riddance to the Goodbye-to-New-York Essay
Joan Didion’s “Goodbye to All That” has spawned a new literary genre: the personal screed about loving (or leaving) New York City.
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The Rumpus Interview with Julie Lawson Timmer
Julie Lawson Timmer discusses her novel, Five Days Left, right-to-die cases, Huntington’s disease, and fiction and illness.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Michael Bazzett
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Michael Bazzett about his new book, You Must Remember This, the malleability of memory, and humor in poetry.
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Here Be Dragons
For anyone from the global fringe, the flattening expectation created by a cultural stereotype is pervasive and familiar.
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TED WILSON REVIEWS THE WORLD #259
THE NO.2 PENCIL ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the No. 2 pencil.
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The Big Idea: Eula Biss
On Immunity author Eula Biss speaks to Suzanne Koven about mythology, personal freedom, and the history of vaccines.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Leslie Jamison
In which we discuss Frozen, Taylor Swift, the limits of empathy, the problem of happiness, and why we listen to sad songs over and over.
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The Rumpus Interview with Damien Ober
Damien Ober discusses the Declaration of Independence, Internet viruses in the eighteenth century, and his new novel Doctor Benjamin Franklin’s Dream America.
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Like Elsa
About twenty of us met in a Muir Woods parking lot on a cool, grey Thursday morning. We hiked up a hill for a mile or so, through Coastal Redwoods, ending up on a dusty road with only a mailbox…
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Make/Work Episode 22: Mick
In episode 22 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, Scott Pinkmountain speaks with guitarist and songwriter Mick about his childhood abuse, drug use, and the crucial need for alternatives to Katy Perry.
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Paper Trumpets #12: Technological Motherfucker
I made this one on a block of wood… I like the natural feel that the wood creates and it makes a great background that gives the collage pieces a disembodied feel.
