The Rumpus Funny Women Interview with Sarah Haskins
Like most women, I am gay for Sarah Haskins. Unlike most women, I got to interview her. Here are some things you should know about Sarah to get the most…
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The Living Dead
David Foster Wallace speaks to us from beyond the grave in David Lipsky’s Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself—but should we be listening?
O. Henry’s Afterlife: Thoughts and Ephemera
There are worse things to do this Saturday than to read or re-read William Sydney Porter—O. Henry—who died one hundred years ago today.
The Rumpus Review of Littlerock
If films were fighters, Mike Ott’s second offering, Littlerock, would weigh in at 123 minutes, placing it in the featherweight division, a deft, gentle movie, lithe and light during its two hours…
The Indistinct Fuzz of a General Rain
World Enough is, despite the sometimes soft dulled-razor language, an incredibly smart, idea-driven book, and the in-charge idea and/or force seems to be America, viewed both from within the country…
Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Tracey Wigfield
[L]et me introduce my former student Tracey Wigfield, who is now a writer for the television program 30 Rock. I am so happy for Tracey that I am now weeping inconsolably.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #39: The Baby Bird
Dear Sugar, WTF, WTF, WTF? I’m asking this question as it applies to everything every day. Best, WTF Dear WTF, My father’s father made me jack him off when I…
We’ll Make Great Pets
In Don LePan’s dystopian novel, the animals are all extinct and the weaker people have taken their place in the food chain.
RE: Online Course Evaluations
“What great dialogues we’ve had on e-mail, cell phone, text messages, Facebook, and Twitter—uv taut me tns!! ☺”
American Fractal
Timothy Green’s debut collection of poetry, American Fractal, picks up where scientific discourse leaves off.
Why Christopher Hitchens Doesn’t Matter
Hitchens’ new memoir Hitch-22 is a sprawling self-portrait of a name-dropper and a hanger-on.
SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #2: Porn Takes It on the Chin
Today’s book battle pits Andrea Dworkin’s Pornography: Men Possessing Women against Nadine Strossen’s Defending Pornography: