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.
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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...
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Steve Almond
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Steve Almond about his new book, Against Football, One Fan's Reluctant Manifesto, the complicity of fans in the violence of the NFL, the sports media's role in the discussion (or lack of one) and the difficulty of leaving a sport you love.
The Rumpus Interview with M.E. Thomas
M.E. Thomas, author of Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight, discusses writing a memoir, being a lawyer and a Mormon, the unreliability of memory—and, of course, being a high-functioning sociopath.
The Rumpus Weekly Review of Books
David Bowie, Sisyphus, the Filipino diaspora, and Canada's most prestigious anthology of poetry.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #251
A FREE TEDDY BEAR PARTY ★★★★★ Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing a free teddy bear party.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Murakami's depiction of the murdered female sex object at the center of his new novel is not only sexist and irresponsible. It's also lazy writing.
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jeff Parker
"The book became the story of Igor, as a metaphor for Russia, in crisis. While Igor is not ... some kind of Putin-era everyman, he is, like The Dude in The Big Lebowski, a man for his time and place."
On the Road Again
What gives the road movie (or, more broadly, the epic voyage) its staying power across cultures and time is an intrinsic narrative structure with a built-in beginning and end in the form of a starting point and destination.
The Rumpus Interview with Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman discusses the challenges of writing a series, why his 20s were a lost decade, and his relationship with his readers.
Make/Work Episode 18: Lisa Ward
In Episode 18 of The Rumpus's Make/Work podcast, host Scott Pinkmountain speaks with artist and architect Lisa Ward.