SELF-MADE MAN #19: Notes on Negative Space
I’ve known what many would call evil: child abuse, a close call with a murderer. I know about other people’s dark impulses, and so I’ve been all the more terrified of my own.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #168
MARSHMALLOWS ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing marshmallows.
Sunday Rumpus Poetry: Robinson Alone
An excerpt from the genre-bending Robinson Alone, exploring the life of poet/painter/musician/critic Weldon Kees.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: On Wearing a Mustache
To wear a mustache is to travel through time, and to travel through, too, to another identity...
Saturday Rumpus Interview: Tirza True Latimer
There is not a lot of reinforcement for being a whole person in capitalism, let alone in the universities.
Saturday Rumpus Essay: Black Barbie
She reached out for my hand from behind the boxed area of the courtroom that separated the inmates, like her, from the lawyers like me. Me and the bailiffs and the good citizens just there on parking tickets. “Can I hold your hand?” she said.
Literary Puns
Timothy Leo Taranto illustrates some of literature’s greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Flan-nery O’Connor, and John Frankensteinbeck.
Why I Chose Camille Guthrie’s Articulated Lair for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
These poems are not traps, but safe spaces with doors inside them.
Shit Turd and The Purple Light
With this much self-awareness and meditation, residents such as myself tend to forget—or, rather, concentrate on forgetting—that Encinitas is also a half-marathon’s distance from the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, which is roughly the size of Rhode Island.
OG DAD #15: TOT BITES DOG
So I’m standing in front of the fridge, door open, wondering more-or-less what happened to my life, when I suddenly remember I have an eight month old baby in my…
The Rumpus Book Club Conversation with Manuel Gonzales
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Manuel Gonzales about The Miniature Wife, subverting genre, building a believable fictional world, and the invention of paper towels.