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Multiplicity

As I held the passport in my hand, I realized that both marriage and gender have a life beyond my own. Somewhere, my citizenship gender had been on file. Somewhere, a record of me existed that over-ruled my daily existence. Here, I was a man. There, I had been female.

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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Ghost Lives

"Here’s what you do when that pile starts talking. You light a match. Light it all on fire and watch it burn with a combination of sadness and elation."

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THE LOVE SONG OF ISAAC FITZGERALD

For those of you who have never had the pleasure of meeting Isaac Fitzgerald, but have been avid readers of the Rumpus, what you should know is this:

The Island of Stopped Clocks: Inside Cuba 50 Years after the Revolution

In a museum in Havana there are two skulls

My Imaginary Bunker

The recent activity in North Korea has urban survivalist websites humming. I wish I didn’t know. Some people watch rom-coms or eat fried Oreos as a guilty pleasure; I quietly…

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We Are Only So Much Monkey: Lessons Learned From Failure

The earliest piece of advice my mother ever gave me was simply this: “Marry a man, Amy. Not a monkey.”

Rock Out with Your Book Out #2: Writer Ariel Gore’s Steely Dan Detox

Hip Mama, which started as Ariel Gore’s student project at Mills College in Oakland and debuted as a zine in 1993, elevated Gore to rockstar status

Let’s Make A Movie

The Rumpus is producing our first movie, Happy Baby. We start shooting May 14, in New York. We need lots of extras. If you’d like to be an extra send an email…

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Rejection Sucks and Then You Die: How to Take a Dear Sad Sack Letter (and Shove it)

In what job other than writing must you seek out frequent and concrete rejection? Okay, fine, but go get your own self-pitying rant.

The Rumpus Interview with Ben Greenman

Humor and experimental fiction—charting the meaning of charts, playing with ideas like a slippage between the gears of perception and reality—have been Ben Greenman’s stock in trade.

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The Cave

I keep finding myself telling myself it was a small thing. But small things don’t make you feel sick or shamed. Small things don’t linger days after.

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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #180

ALPHABET SOUP ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing alphabet soup.

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