Let’s say it’s Redwood City, California, in the year 2000. It’s just barely summer, May or June. I just got out of middle school, but maybe not, maybe I have a year…
These guys gave up the dream of every fledgling college band. And yet, still, more than a decade later -- they are arguably bigger than they would've been had they stayed together.
I know I don’t truly understand what blood money really means, or what it is to offer up the vein, to be willing to give anything just to get by, but I have learned this: just because a story has utility doesn’t mean it’s false.
Longtime Rumpus contributor Scott Hutchins discusses his debut novel, A Working Theory of Love, the Turing test, instant messaging chatbots, and whether technology is actually in danger of isolating and alienating people.
Junot Díaz is the most interesting kind of… hmm… I was going to use the word “genius,” but maybe that’s not quite right for a man who spends seventeen years honing one brilliant book.