Dispatch from the Carnival #3: Bloodlust
What does not occur to me at the moment of this bloodlust, will not until much later, is that I am actively seeking the violence. I want to witness the worst.
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The Last Poem I Loved: Richard Siken’s “Scheherazade”
Tell me, Richard, that I, too, will never get used to this.
The Rumpus Interview with Laura Cogan and Oscar Villalon
Laura Cogan and Oscar Villalon, the editors of ZYZZYVA, sit down to discuss the literary journal's 100th issue, thriving as a print publication in the digital age, and being a staple of San Francisco's cultural community.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #231
FUR ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing fur.
Spotlight: A.K. Summers’s Pregnant Butch
Writer and illustrator A.K. Summers's new graphic memoir, Pregnant Butch, looks at the increasingly common but still underrepresented experience of queer pregnancy with humor and complexity.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Wake the Goddamn World
On a darkened street in Prague, an older man assaults a younger woman, while an American teacher--safe in her apartment above--watches from the window. More than a decade later, Megan Stielstra remembers, interrogating accountability, time and language.
WHERE I WRITE #25: The Wild Pendulum
Here I am, seven years later, a “full-time writer.” I spend about half my time locked up in my apartment in the West End of Providence, Rhode Island, hunched over my laptop.
The Rumpus Review of Nymphomaniac Vol. II
If predictability was insight, if the familiar was shocking, if everyone hadn’t already watched a billion hours of Internet porn, Nymphomaniac might be the movie Lars von Trier thought he was making.
Sound & Vision: Tony Mangurian
In this second installment, Allyson McCabe sits down with Tony Mangurian, a gifted and versatile engineer, producer, composer, and musician who's worked with everyone from Willie Nelson to U2, Luscious Jackson to Devendra Banhart.
The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Leslie Jamison
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Leslie Jamison about The Empathy Exams, vulnerability, creating hybrid nonfiction, and the benefits of working with an indie press like Graywolf.
Make/Work Episode 11: Aaron Siegel
In Episode 11 of Make/Work, host Scott Pinkmountain talks with composer/percussionist Aaron Siegel.
The Rumpus Interview with Astra Taylor
Driven by philosophical thought, Astra Taylor—documentary filmmaker, activist, and writer—looks at the way the Internet has affected social and economic change in her new book, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age.