Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life #2
How Dave Grohl Taught Me to Stop Whining and (Against Every Known Impulse in My Body) Embrace Happiness
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I Know Why the Caged Bear Sings
A collection of stories from a Romanian-American writer, nominated for a Northern California Book Award, juxtaposes stories from the old country and the new.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #34: Are You My Mother?
You might lose your heart, honey, but you’ll keep your hat.
The End of Major Combat Operations
An excerpt from Nick McDonell’s first book of nonfiction, The End of Major Combat Operations, published by McSweeney’s.
The Rumpus Interview with Forrest Gander
“As a writer, I’m interested in trying to get to the complexity of experience. For me, that has led—in poetry—to counterpoint, polyrhythms, and clausal layering.”
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #24: Jenna Jameson’s Father Dials 911
The porn star Jenna Jameson, now a 36-year-old mother of 13-month-old twins, was never trained to hit anybody or to defend herself from being hit. Her boyfriend Tito Ortiz, a…
10/40/70 #5: Cure
This column is an experiment in writing about film: what if, instead of freely choosing which parts of the film to address, I select three different, arbitrary time codes (in this…
Disinclined to Mislead Anyone
Lantz forces us again and again to reexamine the way we see through such juxtaposition of facts as well as through the voices of characters who search for and experience…
Lightning Strikes Twice: The Rumpus Interview with Nick Lantz
How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!
Tribeca Film Festival Questionnaire: We Ask, They Answer. #3: The Space Between
WE ASK THE ACTORS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS…AND DRAW Flight Attendant Montine McLeod (Academy Awarded nominated Melissa Leo) finds herself the unlikely guardian of Omar (Anthony Keyvan), a Pakistani boy…
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
David Grann compiles a decade of investigative profiles from The New Yorker and elsewhere in a compelling study of the dark side.
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #33
THE DENTAL FLOSS SAMPLE MY BUS DRIVER GAVE ME ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing…