The Rumpus Interview with Scott McClanahan
McClanahan's prose is unfettered and kinetic and his stories seem like a hyper-modern iteration of local color fiction.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #88
TUNNELS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing tunnels.
Winter in America: A Musical Lamentation Offered on the Passing of Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron died on May 27, at age 62. As I write this, there’s no official cause of death. We’ll know soon enough. This is America, after all. Whatever the…
The Mysterious Case of Novel-in-Stories
What does it mean exactly to claim that stories are linked, loosely or not? What must do the linking in order for the chain to hold?
The Speed of Belief
We don't always run a separate review of our Poetry Book Club selection, but you're in luck here. Taylor Hagood takes us through Tracy K. Smith's latest, Life on Mars.
The Rumpus Interview with Blake Butler
Blake Butler is the author of There Is No Year (Harper Perennial, 2011), Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books, 2010), and Ever (Calamari Press, 2009). He is the editor of HTMLGIANT, Lamination…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #74: Ten Angry Boys
When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair.
The Last Poem I Loved: “To My Twenties” by Kenneth Koch
“Only this do you know for sure: time is an ellipsis until it is not.”
THE LONELY VOICE #11: Eudora Welty, Total Bad Ass
Greatest American short story writer? Ever? For me, it’s not even an interesting question. Welty in a landslide.
The Hokum of Her Clothes
[O]ne of Laux’s strengths is her willingness to break through those poetic walls so many of us construct. She seems to want no distance between herself and her reader.
Super Hot Prof on Student Word Sex: Jane Roper
Talk me through the class in which we met. Anything you can remember that doesn’t involve how poorly I dressed.