SELF-MADE MAN #16: Trapped in the Right Body
Binaries are luxuries I can only study clinically; they lost their soothing qualities when I prioritized my reality over yours.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jonathan Evison
Thrice-acclaimed novelist, Jonathan Evison, talks community-building, literary intimacy, the importance of editors, and the fragile construction of hope.
Lost in Time and Out of Season: Growing Up in 1960’s Berkeley
“Somethin’s happenin’ here but you don’t know what it is,” Bob Dylan said. I didn’t know a thing about him really when I was a kid—just another name in the…
The Rumpus Interview with Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy, likely best known to you as a member of the iconic Brat Pack, with his roles in Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire, has forged a second career as a travel writer. Out with a new memoir, The Longest Way Home, about traveling as a way to settle down, McCarthy touches on issues of fatherhood and commitment.
What I Learned In Homemaking
I sped up, my head down, my attention pressed toward the sidewalk. The boys stayed turned from me, hushed, and I thought for a moment that they had tired of me, that I could finally get by.
Swinging Modern Sounds #38: Dinner at Martha’s House
If you did not come of age as a listener to the popular song between 1975 and 1979, you cannot entirely understand the revolution that took place among women.
Where Letters Come From
With the help of the Egyptians, Sumerians, and Phonecians, Jason Novak illustrates what characters in the alphabet originally represented:
The Rumpus Interview with Sibylla Brodzinsky and Max Schoening
The editors of Throwing Stones at the Moon shed light on Colombia's human rights crisis and the power of bringing survivors' voices to a conversation dominated by the perpetrators and beneficiaries of the conflict.
Where I Write #23: The House My Mother Built
That’s what I want to do as I write: break through the varnish my mom helped me shellack over my truth, the stains we both used to deny our imperfections, hide our dark places.
Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: J.M. Benjamin
J.M. Benjamin spent more than twelve years in state and federal prisons in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. But he read and read in prison, and eventually wrote more than a dozen urban fiction novels.
ALBUMS OF OUR LIVES: HICKEY’S VARIOUS STATES OF DISREPAIR
When I first heard Hickey’s Various States of Disrepair I knew I’d found what I’d been looking for. The only problem was, I’d found it too late.
THE RUMPUS INTERVIEW WITH DAVID REES
With the War on Terror less than a month old, David Rees sat up in his Brooklyn apartment one night and wrote eight comic strips about the world's newest (and vaguest) war. His frustrations were on full display. His method: a conversational comic about the state of the world,