Albums of Our Lives: Hole’s Celebrity Skin
1. The car I drove when I was 20 smelled like rain. When it stormed, the passenger side floor filled with a puddle so deep I’d have to bail it…
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The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Barry
Irish writer Kevin Barry sits down for a chat about life in County Sligo, not knowing what your stories are about until years after you've written them, and the summer he spent in a camping trailer on a West Cork beach.
The Rumpus Review of Spike Lee’s Oldboy
Remaking a foreign film is a dubious task. And surely, it’s impossible for those of us who have seen Chan-wook Park’s original Oldboy to really have a pure view of Lee’s remake.
Steve Almond on Toto’s “Africa”
As CBS This Morning faces the music about its inappropriate and insensitive use of Toto's "Africa" to score a montage from Mandela's funeral, we asked Rumpus author Steve Almond, a Toto "Africa" expert (see video below), what he thinks. Almond had this to say:
SELF-MADE MAN #25: Risk
I need to be here, all skin and beard and elevator heart, where everything happens at once: the people we’ve been and the people we’re becoming creating a weird physics, time bending us toward each other, nine million stories bumping into the night, each of us calling the others home.
The Rumpus Interview with Maureen Seaton
Maureen Seaton sits down to discuss queering poetry, collaborating on collections, vacillating between literary genres, and why Audre Lorde's "Uses of the Erotic" is at the top of her credos.
FUNNY WOMEN #111: About Our Impending Nuptials
We would like something tasteful, elegant, modern, luxurious, artsy, classy, chic, and original, but also with a bit of simple lightness and a homey, retro feel. And also some danger.
Nuestra Señora de Las Nieves: Seeking a Saint in the Heart of a War Zone
I have so many questions for Cruz. Does she know the whole story about this painting? Did she attend catechism and Mass at Tía Zenaida’s house? Does she know why we took the painting from Las Nieves?
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #211
HUNGER FIRE ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Hunger Fire.
The Rumpus Interview with Stephen Dixon
The prolific Stephen Dixon sits down with The Rumpus to discuss the endings of short stories, beginning with good lines, and his evasive history with editors.