Continental Divide
Kurt Caswell’s memoir describes his year teaching in a place of violence, despair, doubt… and hope.
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FUNNY WOMEN #9: Mars/Venus for Your Fetus
Dear Future Dads, So, you’re expecting a baby (by “expecting” I mean “dreading,” and by “a baby,” I mean “the consequences of using that glow-in-the-dark condom from 1989”)! That’s wonderful!
The Rumpus Review of Broken Embraces
The plot reveals an intricate maze, in which all of the characters find themselves intimately connected, but no one in the story emerges from this labyrinth unscathed. When your lover…
The Interrogative Mood
“Does integrity lie in failure?” asks the narrator of Padgett Powell’s new novel. He hopes that it does.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #13
FAKING AN ILLNESS FOR SYMPATHY ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing faking an illness for…
The Rumpus Interview with Paul Madonna
“Even the things you love can take so much work that sometimes they bring you to the breaking point. So you might as well be in the most comfortable place…
Forgetting English
This brief collection of stories, winner of the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction, takes readers around the world to examine familiar relationships without geographical boundaries.
The Last Book We Loved: Part Two
The Rumpus presents the second installment of an index to “The Last Book I Loved” Series.
RECESSION SEX WORKERS #6: The Orgasmic Frequency of Elle Rocket
When I met Elle in San Francisco, we were sleeping with the same tattooed Puerto Rican stripper in AA. Ten years later, she contacted me on Facebook and asked if…
FUNNY WOMEN #8: Dear Johnny Depp
Dear Johnny Depp, How are you? I am fine. I recently purchased the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End Remote Control Mini Battle Pirate Ships – Chinese Junk and…
The Rumpus Interview with Poetry Rock Star Eileen Myles
“Waste is good, important. Especially in art. It’s not the perfectly placed and chosen object that rules. It’s a pile of things and one might catch your eye but its…
Fog Is Also Good for This
Jamie Iredell weaves a drug-and-alcohol fueled journey out of brief, vivid bursts of language.