Much Ado About Something
While Affordable Care Act (ACA) opponents were muttering dire warnings of a falling sky, our troop of the uninsured hugged and cried and filled that same sky with utterances of shocked joy.
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Funny Women #116: The Lady Writer’s Guide to a Successful Sex Change
Drain the bubble bath and prepare to transform the novel you’ve been toiling over for so long into a publishable, marketable piece of Women’s Fiction!
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 3
The ritual of poetic discovery is a reanimation of the whole metaphor of human dream and reason, irrationality and rationality, the ancient and the contemporary, the organic and the artifice.
The Rumpus Interview with Nathan Deuel
Nathan Deuel discussees his collection of essays, Friday Was The Bomb: Five Years in the Middle East, and his attempts to encapsulate cultures so often misunderstood and misrepresented by American media.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #232
THE SKY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the sky.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Dormancy
"I wonder what it feels like to be precious to someone ... I’ve always known love as a one-two combo of kiss and fist."
I Wasn’t the White Boy Everyone Thought I Was
My connection to my Puerto Rican heritage seemed as tenuous as my connection to my white skin. I didn’t feel white, didn’t believe I had the privileges that came with whiteness.
An Evening with Richard Linklater
Boyhood (2014), which was filmed over a 12-year period, may be the film that completes [Linklater's] vision. It is without action, a plot, or any of the elements you've come to expect from a movie.
Readers Report: Missed Connections
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Missed Connections.”
Gruesome Spectacles by Austin Sarat
We the People of the United States do not wish to meet or exceed the depravity of those we deem too depraved to live. We just want to kill them. We want to have our death penalty and be good people, too.
The Rumpus Interview with David James Poissant
David James Poissant talks about his debut collection, The Heaven of Animals, revisiting story characters in novels, and the differences between realist and "glowing baby stories."
My 24 Hours on Instagram
I joined Instagram on a Tuesday, the night of a weekly social club in the Berkshires where members get together to share dishes that correspond to that week’s theme.