The Rumpus Review of The Skin I Live In
Here’s a game: try to imagine what great directors would do if they had been forbidden by some cosmic entity from making films.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kelebohile Nkhereanye and Renee Boyd
July 24, 2011. Kelebohile Nkhereanye and Renee Boyd confidently walk up a flight of stairs inside Brooklyn’s Municipal Building City Hall that sweltering Sunday morning.
The Slow Urgency of Drowning
Stacie Leatherman weaves lush metaphors and imagery that drifts and flakes, and is riddled with earthly abundance, colors, and dust. Her writing is sensory, and her voice and syntax trick…
The Rumpus Interview with Colby Buzzell
Colby Buzzell was a bored 25 year-old, weary of working dead-end, hand-to-mouth jobs when he decided it would be more exciting and pay better to shoot machine guns in Iraq.
Debutantes in Distress
Lori Baker’s new short story collection, Crash and Tell, is led by a cast of women whose rich creative minds derail their own lives.
Why Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won: A Poet’s Report from the Trenches
The demands on Occupy Wall Street far outnumber the demands by Occupy Wall Street — because occupiers don’t demand, they exist and they triumph by using their existence to overwrite…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #109
APPLE PIE ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing apple pie.
Irreconcilable Differences
Gary Lutz’s new collection, divorcer, tells seven stories of divorce that will captivate every reader―single, married or divorced.
Once, We Were (Not) Troy Davis And Then We Were Something Else
Life is the one disaster that is also a miracle. Or perhaps life is the one miracle that is also a disaster.
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6th and Mission
Amazing artist Wendy MacNaughton illustrates the worlds of 6th and Mission, as well as 5th and Mission (but mostly 6th), in San Francisco, CA. …more
The Night is a God’s Wound
This [collection] is a rare effort to “open the window” for western readers onto the last fifty years of Chinese poetics.