I wasn’t looking at them, but I felt I should have been. It’s an act of bravery, to see and be seen, isn’t it? A way to connect? And wasn’t I, just then, needing to feel something like brave?
The Rumpus talks to John Darnielle about his debut novel, Wolf in White Van, the differences between writing prose and songwriting, and what it's like to be a dad.
Halloween afternoon, my senior year of high school. At the end of the school day, shadows already stretch from the huge white pines near Newton Square.
In episode 21 of The Rumpus’s Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with violinist Mona Tian about her lost childhood, and how she eventually had to discover her own reasons and motivations to continue playing music as an adult.