The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jericho Brown
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Jericho Brown about his book The New Testament, elegies, childhood, and the size of his forehead.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #252
DOLPHIN TALE 2 ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Dolphin Tale 2.
The Rumpus Interview with David Bezmozgis
The Rumpus talks to David Bezmozgis about Israel, making fact into fiction, politics in novels, and his new book, The Betrayers.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Casa Azul Cripple
"I wanted to be sexual/sexualized, but not fetishized. But was becoming someone’s fetish the only way? How was being fetishized different than being desired for having a unique, unrepeatable shape...or would the one leg always and forever be the only thing that mattered?"
The Last Book I Loved: Krabat
1982 was a shitty year. I was 9 years old and in the 4th grade in Appleton, Wisconsin. My parents were going through a nasty divorce, the kind of thing you see on Jerry Springer.
The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
Women in Clothes, the sexism of Haruki Murakami, and poems about Gertrude Stein and desire.
Detroit New Hollywood Vegas: Notes from an Extra
Juliette Lewis will decide to stage dive onto just me. Later, Drew Barrymore will make Alia Shawkat cry in front of a hundred extras. Later, Juno will face-plant. Hard.
Sound & Vision: Monte Pittman
Musician Monte Pittman, who collaborates with Madonna, talks with Allyson McCabe about guitar, his childhood in Texas, and passing on what he's learned to others.
Why I Chose Erika Meitner’s Copia for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Camille Dungy co-opts one of the many forms Erika Meitner uses in her new book Copia to tell us why she chose it for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club.
The Rumpus Interview with Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Jane Rosenberg LaForge discusses her new book An Unsuitable Princess, being a New York writer from L.A., and how women get short shrift in fairy tales.
Albums of Our Lives: Dory Tourette and the Skirtheads’ Rock Immortal
The driving force of the album is the character Dory Tourette, part invented alter ego, part self-mythologized caricature of frontman Dory Ben-Shalom...