Ander Monson
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The Claws That Type the Text: Ander Monson’s Predator: A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession
Rather than saying, Fuck it, and remaining stagnant in the face of cultural horrors, Monson suggests readers start with the marginalia. Exhaust all possibilities. Carve a new path where sweeping prescriptions fail to stick.
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2020
A selection of AWP 2020 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Slouching Toward Vantage: A Conversation with Taneum Bambrick
Taneum Bambrick discusses her debut poetry collection, VANTAGE.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #157: Sarah Viren
”There’s a danger to the word [’mine’] that I find really rich and exciting.”
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How We Cycle through Our Lives: Talking with Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer discusses her new essay collection, Circadian, her writing process, and the body as text.
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Dissecting the Essay
How does an essay comes to its final shape? What’s the morphology of nonfiction’s popular form? Over at the Ploughshares blog, E. V. De Cleyre dissects works by Ander Monson, Claudia Rankine, Eula Biss, Leslie Jamison, and Maggie Nelson to get…
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The Rumpus Interview with Christy Crutchfield
Novelist Christy Crutchfield talks about her debut, How to Catch a Coyote, world building, inspiration, icky fiction, the role of mystery, and the marathon of novel writing
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Happy spring, Rumpusers! Come see what you missed in Rumpus Books this week.
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The Resistance of Memory
Ander Monson attempts to move beyond “the singular authority of ‘I’ in nonfiction,” exploring new possibilities for the memoir form.
