A Ritual for Being Born Twice
Melissa Petro lost her job last summer after publishing an article on The Rumpus about her former life as a sex worker.
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An Interview with Jon Raymond
Oregonian Jon Raymond stays true to his roots. He has written three films to date (Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and his latest, Meek’s Cutoff) all of which are set…
To Absorb the Appendages of Time
Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams opens in theaters today. You walk out of Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams overcome by the power of time. Personally, I find…
No Trace of Origin, No Thorn
The poems in Copperhead use the deeply wrought questions with which it is concerned to wisely come up with a sort of memoir, which is attaching deeply felt memories with…
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Friends with Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Salman Rushdie and J.M. Coetzee, witness to 27 revolutions, and journalist of the century in his native Poland–Ryszard Kapuscinski, many believe, was unlucky not to receive…
“Where the Train Goes Slow:” An Excerpt from Johnny Cash’s American Recordings
We love the 33 1/3 series from Continuum, which explores individual albums through slender investigations from rock critics such as Rob Trucks on Fleetwood Mac and Amanda Petrusich on Nick…
The Rumpus Interview with Eileen Myles
"I think we're always a little bit in hell. Like how hot New York is in the summer. Or an intense, wonderful, hard, hard relationship could be hell, and you think, I will stay here forever, because I love you."
The Rumpus Interview with Patrick DeWitt
The Rumpus talks to Patrick DeWitt about his new book, The Sisters Brothers, the story of two brothers in Gold Rush California.
New Rituals for Curbside Healing
The poems in Signs And Wonders have a moral and structural grace that is sometimes fueled by political anger or collective sorrow.
A Field Unfenced: Remembering Craig Arnold
We were sitting in an unfamiliar building on campus, my student Natalie and I, talking about the poet we were reading for that week, Craig Arnold.
FUNNY WOMEN #52: Literary Classics Summarized as Trashy Romance Novels
I am writing to assure you that I am still very interested in writing back cover copy for eHarlequin.com.
Ivan and Misha
Michael Alenyikov’s award-winning new book, Ivan and Misha, explores many-faceted love—from the intense and fleeting to bonds of familial obligation.