Rumpus Original
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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 . . .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 asked me about my dreams: “Do you have any nightmares?”
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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.
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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.
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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.
