butterflies

  • The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #198: Rene Denfeld

    The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #198: Rene Denfeld

    “Healing is a process you must actively engage in.”

  • Sound & Vision: Arthur Fournier

    Sound & Vision: Arthur Fournier

    Allyson McCabe talks with Arthur Fournier, an independent dealer of books, serials, manuscripts, and archives, about how he developed his niche, and how digital access has both enriched and complicated the work of archiving and collecting.

  • The Butterfly Effect

    At The New Republic, Laura Marsh examines the interplay—or lack thereof—between Nabokov’s identities as a writer and a lepidopterist. In her investigative and detailed cataloguing of scientific and literary happenings, her only steadfast finding may be this: “There’s a special…

  • Weekly Geekery

    Facial recognition technology is a little racist. Two writers talk about the end of the world and more importantly, the end of social media. Robots are just babies—tiny, terrifying babies. Nabokov and butterfly sex.

  • Mexican Pain Pills and Butterflies

    Rumpus managing editor Zoë Ruiz has a new essay at Ohio Edit. She talks about pain management, sex, friendship, and visions. “On Tuesday night, I drive to a bar on Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles to meet a poet. We are…