The New Yorker’s One Over 40
A special Rumpus lamentation with possible added pep talk. *** So last week the New Yorker published their once-a-decade Fiction Issue, in which they printed eight stories, along with their…
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Complicit with Everything
A metaphorical review of Tony Hoagland’s Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, in which Johnny Rocket, Britney Spears, and the Saudi Monarchy play a crucial role in American poetry.
The Tense, Thrown Like a Switch
Farley’s poems live in the present, the past and the future simultaneously, fully conscious of their unrest.
GENERATION GAP #3: Vickrey After Salinger
Why has the work of Robert Vickrey, one of the last living masters of egg tempera, remained so obscure?
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #40: Be a Warrior for Love
I believe there is a divine spirit in each of us.
Little Green
“If I ever caught you spun, we’d be over. Only one of us gets to be fucked up at a time.”
The Exit Interview: A Conversation with My Ex-Boyfriend
At first, I loved Dan from a distance. Judging on a bell-curve, I was attractive for my high school debate team, but otherwise, I was far from his type of…
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #26: Women and Children First
What follows is an extrapolation, based on my wife’s July due date and the actual match schedule of the 2010 World Cup.
10/40/70 #11: Mildred Pierce
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…
A Gloriously Difficult World
Foreign aspects sometimes have a familiar whiff, and not just to Simic fans who have seen proof of his admission that Serbian poetry has affected his own. They have a…
Ridiculously Rich: The Rumpus Interview with Simon Rich
Somehow everyone feels like they know a Simon Rich, a self-proclaimed nerd who embraced his geek-cool and blossomed into his brand as if overnight. Sometimes it seems like everyone I…