Assorted Poems
Susan Wheeler manages to navigate a wide terrain of both content and form while maintaining the interconnectedness of one of the less lame concept albums ever produced.
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A Great Piece of Writing That Isn’t Famous and Has Never Been Collected in a Single-Authored Book, and Why the Hell Not?!
The reader wishes the reader had ever had such a teacher, although the teacher doesn’t seem himself to think he’s all that much of a teacher.
The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos is the author of Whip Smart, a new memoir about her four years working as a professional dominatrix in a Midtown Manhattan dungeon while enrolled full time at…
An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #3
Betty Anne May, Age 80 Truth or Consequences, New Mexico “That man could turn me on by touching my little fingernail.”
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #30: Pluck It From the Floor. And Onward You Go.
It’s a funny sort of reverse logic, how every now and then your vision is clearer when you constrict rather than expand it.
The Rumpus Interview with K. M. Soehnlein
“The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character’s self-awareness—or lack…
My New Job
If you’re a fan of experimentation, silliness, and fucking–and what reasonable human being isn’t?–you’ll find things to like about My New Job.
10/40/70 #1: Starship Troopers
This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time codes (in this…
The Rumpus Interview with Brad Watson
The late, great Barry Hannah, writing about The Heaven of Mercury, described Watson’s writing as a “sort of calm wail” and said, “Only the Irish geniuses wrote like this.”
We Are Never as Beautiful as We Are Now
“I think that the greatest analogy between baseball and writing, or even life, is that the game is designed for its players to fail.”
RUMPUS RADIO #1: Interview with K.Flay
Introducing the Rumpus—now in audio! What is your pun threshold? Are you ready for a pun battle between K.Flay and the International Pun Champion, Joe Sabia?
FUNNY WOMEN #20: Holiday with Communists
First, you and your grandmother decorate Easter eggs to put on the Seder plate. This is her Passover tradition. She will have decided that Seder plates “could use a little…