The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg
Writer Laura van den Berg talks about her newest collection, The Isle of Youth, being drawn to locations "with a potential for magic and strangeness," and how to create a continuous dream for the reader.
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The Rumpus Review of All Is Lost
From the start, All Is Lost understands what makes the survival genre great: an uncompromising dedication to what happens on the screen and a refusal to linger over why it happens or what it means.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #206
INSTAGRAM ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Instagram.
All Over Coffee #657 Collaboration with Susan Steinberg
She opened my hand; she flattened my fingers; she traced a line; and I thought of something; and I thought something else.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Through the Throat
"This past July, I stood over my father’s hospital bed and contemplated suffocating him with his pillow..."
The Rumpus Interview with Eric Lundgren
Novelist Eric Lundgren talks about paying homage to your influences, inducing literary vertigo, the perfect details in film noir, and the Mall of America.
The Last Book I Loved: nineties by Lucy Ives
Our parents showed up to retrieve us. They wanted to know why we would do such a thing. My friend and I looked at each other and just shrugged our shoulders.
Fantasy Football For Poets: Week 9
“Okay, what would your children want me to do?” asked head trainer Paul Sparling. “Take care of daddy?”
“This Is Just To Say I’m a Zombie” by David Hernandez
Happy Halloween from Rumpus Poetry, where we're pleased to offer you this take on William Carlos Williams's "This is just to say" by David Hernandez.
The Rumpus Interview with Katy Butler
Journalist Katy Butler discusses her memoir, Knocking on Heaven's Door: A Path to a Better Way of Death, why medicine and technology often cloud the larger issues of dying, and how we should contemplate the end of our lives.
HEAVY-HANDED: Shooting Star
Whenever I see a shooting star I think I have to make a wish but the first thing I think is always, "I wish I were dead!"
A Stabbing in Finsbury Park
What I’m interested in is: How do you write what you weren’t allowed to know about what you know? How do you write what nobody wants to know about what you know?