SATURDAY RUMPUS ESSAY: The Tyranny of “Brooklyn”
Tomorrow is the Brooklyn Book Festival, which means everyone in Brooklyn will gather in auditoria and listen to writers speak.
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The Known World
Reviewing Sunset Park, I am behaving like a Paul Auster character, imagining a dialogue with a famous author, wondering about the ways fiction and reality overlap…”
Talks with Teachers #1: Mutual Respect
“You have to prove your commitment to the students, but that commitment has to be to making them a better student not to changing them into something you think they…
The Rumpus Red Carpet Report: The One Story Literary Debutante Ball
Four hundred writers and readers celebrated one of the country’s favorite journals. Where were you?
Outside of Society
Patti Smith’s memoir of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe chronicles two “mutinous spirits” in the chaos of 1970s New York.
The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Lethem
"I don’t go down wrong paths; I’d rather stare at the screen and delete until I’ve put something down that is working."
The Rumpus Interview with Robert Sullivan
Journalist Robert Sullivan often documents unlovely corners of the natural world: The Meadowlands (1998) turned a naturalist’s eye on a dispiriting region of northern New Jersey notable for its Mafia…