Wanted/Needed/Loved: Mark and Frances Quinlan’s Favorite Things
What I want/need/love most is to be with my family.
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Erica Mena
Poems and rope that make me plumb my depths and stretch my limits of my poetic language: that's the worthwhile project.
The Rumpus Interview with Helen Ellis
Helen Ellis talks about making a literary comeback with her new story collection American Housewife, subverting expectations, and the joys of gossip.
David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Be Wise, Drink the Wine
Be it Latin or poetry, or whatever it was—I was feeling woozy by then. If I couldn’t love what I was reading, I took it, it was better to have never read at all.
My First Year as a Dominatrix Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Myself
What is a career, and how does it define us?
The Circle Is Watching
In a world where boundaries between private and public are already blurring, Tim and Nicolaas wanted to find out what would happen if those boundaries disappeared altogether.
Conversations with Literary Ex-Cons: Vickie Stringer
Vickie Stringer talks about her first novel Let That Be the Reason, her Triple Crown Publishing venture, life in prison, and making hip-hop literature.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Admission of Guilt
Last summer, I nearly killed my son. It was an accident, but the guilt I live with belongs to those whose malicious deeds are intentional.
One Hundred Thousand Miles
No one cares, of course, if you’re still capable at forty-four of being bad, or if you think you’ve got to be bad sometimes just to know you’re alive.
The Rumpus Interview with Derek Ridgers
British photographer Derek Ridgers discusses his fetish for nightclub portraits and what it’s been like to shoot the London underground scene for nearly four decades.
Albums of Our Lives: Beck’s Odelay
A friend once showed me his dad’s copy of the Beatles's White Album and said you could find secret messages hidden in the lyrics. I tried to look for the same things in Odelay, but it resisted.