Rumpus Original
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The Rumpus Interview with Lorin Stein
When Lorin Stein took the helm at the Paris Review in April 2010, he was just the third editor in the magazine’s storied history. Founded by the legendary George Plimpton in 1953, the Review has been responsible for launching the careers of some of America’s preeminent writers…
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits
“I don’t think fake people living in a fake house in a fake suburb are any less dismissible or believable than a fake psychic attending a fake school in a fake town. Nothing’s inherently believable about any kind of fiction,…
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On the Comfort of Bad Books
At last weekend’s New Yorker festival, Salman Rushdie ventured the opinion that the inexplicably popular 50 Shades of Grey “made Twilight look like War and Peace.” I don’t like Twilight, I’ve never read 50 Shades of Grey, and still some defensive antenna of mine shot up. Not to pick on Rushdie…
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The Rumpus Review of How To Survive a Plague
The response to the AIDS epidemic that ripped through the gay community starting in the early years of the Reagan administration can be best characterized by how most health and social issues are dealt with in contemporary politics today, with…
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The Change Dance
I don’t dance said the Polynesian technician, our Telecom link to what’s beyond Atiu. We’re in the middle of the Pacific, on a tiny island that started cell phone service only six months ago.
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Self-Made Man #17: Real Men
If masculinity could be defined by a quick Google search or a drive down a billboard-studded highway, then a “real man” is a paradox, captured crudely at the uneasy intersections of faith, love, public service announcements, politics, and advertising.
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Sense of Place #3: Stephanie Ann Whited, Grace Church
In Grace, all utterances, including movement or thought, resound and therefore must be performed with intention.
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Roxane Gay’s Reading Roundup, Fall 2012
Our essays editor surveys new novels and collections — coming-of-age tales, journeys, and love stories — and looks ahead to forthcoming works.
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Ted Wilson Library Policy 2012
As many of you know, our own Reviewer of the World, Ted Wilson, is also a 2012 Presidential candidate. While most American voters have not heard of him, they have probably heard of someone with the same name, and according…
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Readers Report: Going Home
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Going Home.” Edited by Susan Clements.
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THE LONELY VOICE #19: On the Beauty of Not Writing… A Reluctant Homage to Juan Rulfo
I would like to be even more silent. The need to write thankfully only comes once in a while,
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When I Loved Reagan
When I see this video of eleven-year-old me, I burn inside. Maybe I should take it easy on myself, but I see a fumbling, painfully awkward girl supporting a politician whose influence still buttresses today’s anti-feminist conservatives