The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Kiese Laymon
Kiese Laymon first caught my eye when his essay, “You Are the Second Person,” was published in Guernica Magazine from his collection, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America.
Rumpus Original
8550 posts
The Rumpus Interview with April Flores and Carlos Batts
Carlos Batts, an award-winning photographer/director, and April Flores, a model/actress plus-sized adult film star, chat with us about their collaborative book, Fat Girl.
Oops, I’m Sorry
Thank you all for coming here today. It is with a heavy heart that I admit to my colleagues, to my constituents, and to the public, that I did indeed do that thing I was accused of doing. Boy did I do it.
The Rumpus Book Club Discussion with David Gilbert
The Rumpus Book Club talks with David Gilbert about his novel & Sons, shifts in perspective, and the economic viability of hot-dog carts.
Hollywood Pilgrims
The landscape stood out, but I also had an uneasy sense of déjà vu, as if the image had already been imprinted in my memory. I knew that the valley was the setting for John Ford’s 1939 western Stagecoach, the film that gave John Wayne his breakout role.
The Rumpus Interview with Nathaniel Kressen
Nathaniel Kressen, writer and co-founder of Second Skin Books, discusses his experience creating a book from start to finish, the importance of editing, and the difference between self-publishing and independent publishing.
Swinging Modern Sounds #47: A Further Miscellany
This column collects a bunch of albums (and, in one case, a book by a writer/musician) that I have loved a great deal in the last six months, as well as exactly one album that I think is not worth the hype.
The Rumpus Interview with Brian Lindstrom
We talk to filmmaker Brian Lindstrom about his latest project, Alien Boy, the creative process behind documentary filmmaking, and his personal and artistic relationship with his wife, Cheryl Strayed.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #196
PLANES ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Planes.
Last City I Loved: Abu Dhabi
When I am in Abu Dhabi, I miss New York and Chongqing and Buenos Aires and all the other places in the world that mean something to me. And when I am in those other places, I miss Abu Dhabi.
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Lisa, Wolf, and the World
What is the price of art--of inspiration? Shaken by the dire financial need of one of her youthful punk idols, Zoe Zolbrod powerfully re-examines her own relationship to the middle-class ethos.