Growing Out of It
A descendant of Cheever, Stuart Nadler traces evolving relationships with delicate, precise prose in his debut short story collection, The Book of Life.
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The Death (and Resurrection) of BlazeVOX
It all started, as it so often seems to these days, with a blog post.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #101
PURPLE NURPLES ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing purple nurples.
Bel Canto to Bulgaria: The Rumpus Interview with Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell’s first novella, Mitko, won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Contest. Greenwell discusses “gay identity,” loneliness abroad, and art songs with Shara Lessley.
A Gadabout Eye
Like a firestorm and the weather it creates, the poems in this collection occur in an amorphous space where the forms—and the elements with which Savich fills them—are constantly changing.
Albums of Our Lives: Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis
Once I dated the son of a preacher man. Later, I dated the son of a preacher woman.
Written Roots
Alexandra Fuller’s third memoir, Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness, turns the spotlight on her mother—”a broken, splendid, fierce mother.”
A MODERN READER #7: Newspapers? Newspapers!
Last March, when the New York Times announced they would be erecting a pay wall, I knew I would pay it.
The Rumpus Interview with Madeline Adams
Madeline Adams, best known by her stage moniker “Madeline” sings sweet, soft country-influenced folk, with a voice that emits the passion of Joni Mitchell
The Day I Got Burned I Wanted to Be Burned
If you like Hayes, if you like little books, if you like political poetry, or, if you are like me and like all three, you’ll find this book compelling.
The Rumpus Interview with Blindsight Author Chris Colin
In Blindsight, Chris Colin has written the true story of b-movie-to-blockbuster producer Simon Lewis’s 16-year recovery from a car crash that left him with a pulse, but little else.