The Rumpus Interview with Pinckney Benedict
“I certainly hope we’re all writing about those things that matter most to us.”
Rumpus Original
8548 posts
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #28: The Toss-Up Talcum Chronicle
Much ado about LeBron James, Haruki Murakami, free agency, and home.
Herself, Only Reversed
The Hollywood dreams of this novel’s heroine are much like the tenets of her fundamentalist upbringing: first sacrifice, then redemption, then apocalyptic paradise.
The Man I Gave a Hand Job in West Hollywood Will Surely Blow His Brains Out Before I See Him Again
I was dumped over the phone by the man I’ve been dating for several months. I’d never had such an abrupt, hostile break up.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #43
I-PHONE 4 ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the I-phone 4.
Walt Whitman’s Watering Hole: Pfaff’s Cellar, NYC
Whitman became a regular at Pfaff’s after getting fired from the Brooklyn Daily Times in 1859. The years before the Civil War were a decadent period where Whitman played the…
The Queen of Flash Fiction
In curt sentences detailing many unsettled lives, Kim Chinquee constructs a mosaic of despair in modern day America. Life is already hard, but attempts at intimacy (what many of the…
GENERATION GAP #4: Sexting in the 18th Century
About a year after the breakup, I started keeping a text message journal.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #42: No is Golden
But as you are surely aware, forgiveness doesn’t mean you let the forgiven stomp all over you once again.
The Private Lives of Trees
The second novella by Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra, one of the “Bogotá 39” influential Latin American writers, uses metafiction to tell a delicate, emotionally complex story.
The Rumpus Review of Make Way for Tomorrow
A Depression-era drama about bankruptcy and aging and the quiet moral failures of the petit bourgeois, Make Way for Tomorrow is the anti-Avatar.
10/40/70 #14: Blair Witch and House of Leaves
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…