The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Crazy
"We live in a culture where it can seem like everyone wants to be troubled. Nobody wants to be crazy...The story arc of mental illness does not conform to the redemption tale."
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Hunting for the Little Prince
Stalking the real boy who inspired the legendary prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic book.
Spring Break is Over, Bitches
[James] Franco wrote that "whoever is involved in the [Spring Breakers] sequel is jumping on board a poison ship," and he's right.
The Rumpus Interview with Kate Christensen
Six-time novelist Kate Christensen talks about the shift to memoir, the benefits of blogging, using food as a springboard to tell the story of one's life, and American society's ongoing problem with pressuring women to be thin.
The Rumpus Interview with D. Foy
Writer D. Foy waxes poetic about Made To Break, gutter opera, Stanley Kubrick and Anthony Burgess, remembering and imagining, the nature of reality, the perfection of humans, and treeing.
Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Along Came Polly
I taught Polly at Tin House one year. Or maybe she taught me.
Paper Trumpets #1: Strange Horizon
Paper Trumpets is a venue for me to share my own developing work and also to share my enthusiasm for the process of the art form and the growing community of awesome collagists out there all over the world.
The Rumpus Interview with Joseph Boyden
Canadian writer Joseph Boyden sits down to discuss his latest novel, The Orenda, what it means to be of both Ojibway and European descent, and the controversy surrounding his portrayals of Canada's historical violence.
The Last Book of Poems I Loved: Sleeping With the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
No one writes poems like [Harryette] Mullen. And if Mullen’s poems teach us anything about the larger context of making poems, the lesson might be that no one should write poems like her.
Here Everything Is Possible
My mother died suddenly at a dining room table, in the middle of a wonderful meal, surrounded by a large, extended family that loved her. One minute she was completely immersed in the world—talking, laughing, eating—and the next minute she was gone.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #235
MY RIDING LAWNMOWER ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my riding lawnmower.