The Rumpus Interview with William Giraldi
In a few days, Norton will publish Busy Monsters, the debut novel by William Giraldi. The book has received three starred reviews and a blurb from Harold Bloom.
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Their Eyes Like Geodes
In She Returns to the Floating World, Gailey utilizes anime and other aspects of Japanese culture, such as its folklore and attitudes following The Bomb, as she puzzles through how…
Running Around Being Clones of Ourselves: The Random Topic Interview with Megan Boyle
On the evening of July 27 I interviewed Megan Boyle over gchat. Rather than prepare questions or focus on a specific topic, we used Wikipedia’s “random article” link to go…
Why I Chose Kingdom Animalia
Rumpus Poetry Club Board Member Camille T. Dungy on why she chose Aracelis Girmay’s Kingdom Animalia as the August selection of The Rumpus Poetry Book Club:
Populist Fatalism
In his new epistolary novel, Dignity, about a new community founded in the unpaved cul-de-sacs and abandoned unfinished houses of the California desert, Ken Layne criticizes the material obsessions of contemporary capitalism.
The Rumpus Interview with Richard Kline
Though best known as Larry Dallas, the smarmy and morally flexible neighbor to Jack, Chrissy and Janet on television’s Three’s Company,
WHERE I WRITE #14: A Green Room in Gujarat
The wall in front of the desk is a greenish turquoise. The painters came and finished the whole flat in just a few hours, and you can see where the…
A Box, or Paradox, A Language Game
Tesser’s chapbook slips outside certainties, authorities, controls, leaving her reader-players loose to enact their own language game, re-encountering the inherent antic plasticity of words and meanings.
The Rumpus Interview with Onur Tukel
Midway through June, I was sent a screener of Septien and asked if a piece on the film could find a home in ESPN the Magazine. Septien is an uneasy…
The Eyes of Ginger Pritt
The first novel from poet Rebecca Wolff, The Beginners is a coming-of-age tale told in riveting prose.
Tragedy. Call. Compassion. Response.
Every day, terrible things happen in the world. Every damn day too many people die or suffer for reasons that defy comprehension.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #95
THE HAMBURGLAR ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Hamburglar.