Rumpus Original
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Albums of Our Lives: Linda Ronstadt’s Heart Like a Wheel
The cover was a black and white close-up of a woman, her hair windswept, her name scrawled above her in a font usually reserved for truck stops: Linda Ronstadt. I’d retrieved the album and its torn shell of Columbia Record…
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The Rumpus Interview with Eli Brown
Novelist Eli Brown talks about his creative process, the relationship between writing and visual art, how to correctly define a “pirate,” and his past days as a legitimate martial arts expert.
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The Only Woman in the Room
At the Tazewell County Justice Center, on a Monday night in May, five women gather for a creative-writing class. They microwave plastic cups of instant coffee, then drag chairs up to the conference table where we’ll write.
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The Rumpus Interview with Nina Schuyler
Nina Schuyler discusses her latest novel, The Translator, and delves into its narrative of missed meanings, severed connections, and self-renewal.
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Now that We Can, Maybe We Won’t
When the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, thousands took to the San Francisco streets. That day, I joined in on the mirth, and then came home to Wendy, my beloved partner of five years, beset with…
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HEAVY-HANDED: Awkward
Now she is going to be awkward for the rest of the night, if you can believe it.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Gregory Orr
Every month The Rumpus Poetry Book Club hosts a discussion online with the club members and the author, and we post an edited version online as an interview. To learn how you can become a member of The Rumpus Poetry…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #197
QUICKSAND ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing quicksand.
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The Second Art Form
One summer day in 1985, a doctor calls my mother and tells her that there is empty space where parts of my brain should be. “I don’t understand it,” he says. “There should be muscle, and there’s nothing.” More tests,…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Death of the Natural
I mean, his [Heaney’s] verse is under my skin. His verbs are inside my veins. His metaphors are in my nervous system. His moral clarity is a light inside my own, shall we say, republic of conscience.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kelly Braffet and Lisa Lutz
Megan Abbott convenes a virtual roundtable with writers Kelly Braffet and Lisa Lutz to tackle whether we’re in a post-genre literary world, and discuss, among other things, bank heists, bitch-slapping, and French rats.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon first caught my eye when his essay, “You Are the Second Person,” was published in Guernica Magazine from his collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.