airplanes
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Art, Love, and Resistance in 1940s Europe: Talking with Meg Waite Clayton
Meg Waite Clayton discusses her new novel, THE POSTMISTRESS OF PARIS.
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Startling Juxtapositions: Pilot Impostor by James Hannaham
Hannaham reserves his most vivifying language for planes and crashes.
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Names Are Always the First Lock on Any Cage: Talking with Dolan Morgan
Dolan Morgan discusses his latest short story collection, Insignificana, losing his favorite jacket, Internet comments, and the ending of Lost.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: My Souls Are Out A-Wandering
What is marriage but another form of colonization? A renaming? A power taken, a power taken away?
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #73: Maggie Shipstead
I first met Maggie Shipstead in 2011 when she was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She had not yet published her first novel, Seating Arrangements, which would later become a New York Times bestseller, but even then the magnitude…
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The Rumpus Interview with George Saunders
George Saunders discusses his new (and first) novel Lincoln in the Bardo, Donald Trump, and a comprehensive theory of literature.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Bob and Dave
The threat of perfunctory conversation looms. Raza reaches for his headphones, but it is too late. The man is already talking to him.
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Books on a Plane
A German airline has teamed up with the German book trade for a campaign called Buch an Bord (Book on Board) that allows each passenger to travel with an extra kg of weight just for books. Hear that, American airlines?
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Air Travel Is So Passé
At the New Yorker, Nathan Heller asks whether or not air travel has become obsolete in a world connected by the Internet and social media (and decides that no, it really hasn’t): When physical travel cedes to digital exploration, a certain…
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Aspects of Travel
I refuse to be resolvable. I wait. I wait for confusion to become a resting place for resolution to become a moving organism, an evolution foretold by my body.
