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Sunday Rumpus Serialization: Your Life in Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (#1)
Looking back, you see than while many things happened before Renee was killed, this is really where all the other things start and, to a certain degree, end . . .
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: But I Don’t Want to Get Gone
So many people were reading Gone Girl by the time I’d heard of it that I knew I had to get on the train. It’s a thriller, a potboiler. It’s terribly engaging.
OG DAD: Lick the Sofa and Die
My fear, as a late-in-the game dad, was that somehow I’d end up in diapers before my baby was out of them.
The Rumpus Interview with Lysley Tenorio
Lysley Tenorio’s debut collection Monstress (Ecco) is a wild and memorable ride through the world of transsexuals, lepers, healers, B-movie actors and, of course, the Beatles.
How to Tell a True Story
Ten years after, I sit in a psychiatrist’s office on the Upper East Side. This is my second time here. The first time, when I first met Dr. J, he…
The Rumpus Interview with Balkan Beat Box
This album breaks some traditional world music barriers.
SELF-MADE MAN #11: Blood and Ceremony
I’m trying to tell you that there’s something steady inside each of us, something unconcerned with expectation or gender or fear. There’s a center, and it’s like a friendly ghost of every person we’ve ever been.
FUNNY WOMEN #80: My Future Author Bios, from Least to Most Likely
This is Rupinder Gill’s 85th self-published book. She recently moved back in with her parents.
The Rumpus Interview with Leni Zumas
I am fascinated by tiny, incremental changes, almost imperceptible shifts in how people orient themselves in the world, because those are in some ways the most hopeful.
The Supreme Court School of PoMo Theory
“All literature is interactive,” [Scalia] writes, countering those who find special danger in violent video games because of their interactivity.