Missed #3: Jill McCorkle and The Bourbon Hunt
It’s a tricky thing, this Missed series. Writing is a lonely business, but publishing can be a disingenuous one, and the only essays and reviews that work are bullshit free.
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How Not to Be Humiliated
Twenty-one years ago, a week before Thanksgiving, you were admitted to Dorothea Dix State Psychiatric Hospital in Raleigh, NC.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #220
SALT LICKS ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing salt licks.
The Rumpus Interview with Chris Abani
Chris Abani sits down to talk about the dangers and seduction of fiction, literature as transformation, growing up in Nigeria, and how "our every justification is a story."
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kelcey Parker
"...Fiction and literary nonfiction put you in the mind of character—in her psychological and spiritual “truths”—as she thinks and perceives and interprets and misinterprets and doubts and desires and decides."
Sketchbook Project
I spent four hours perusing the collection on a recent snowy morning and could've spent all day. I took home an official Sketchbook Project notebook and devoted the first pages to these impressions of my visit
OG Dad #22: 24-Hour Potty People
But musical child toilets! The problem on the technical level is that none of the Amazon descriptions would say exactly what kind of music we’d be hearing.
The Light Men
We moved to Dallas from a small market town in the middle of England. We spent our first Christmas in America driving around our adopted Texan neighborhood, noses pressed against the car windows, looking at the miles of sparkling houses.
Readers Report: Resolutions
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Resolutions.”
Catawampus Uber Alles!: The Rumpus Interview with Peter Mountford
Writer Peter Mountford talks about his latest novel, the impossibility of altruism, the realities of the midlife crisis, and the "catawampus" that is economics.
The Prophecy
There was the butterfly knife. The idea of it, not the thing in reality—sleek, wicked-edged, the same kind of knife you once asked to borrow because you were walking home alone and you wanted to be the most dangerous thing out there.
The Rumpus Interview with Ben Marcus
Writer Ben Marcus discusses his latest short story collection, metaphorical writing, language as a communication block, and the sometimes dysfunctional nature of workshops.