chloe caldwell

  • I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell

    I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell

    Ryan Werner reviews I’ll Tell You in Person by Chloe Caldwell today in Rumpus Books.

  • Notable Portland: 12/8–12/14

    Thursday 12/8: Join Susan DeFreitas for the Northwest launch of her debut novel, Hot Season. Powell’s City of Books, 7:30 p.m., free. Friday 12/9: Enjoy an evening of cross-genre entertainment by The Brody Ensemble and selected guest poets Neil Aitken,…

  • Notable San Francisco: 12/7–12/13

    Notable San Francisco grieves for the tragic loss of life in Oakland with the burning of Ghost Ship. Making art is a dangerous pastime, but it shouldn’t be life threatening because artists are forced by city gentrification to live on…

  • Notable NYC: 11/26–12/2

    Saturday 11/26: Sarah Kay, Maeve Higgins, Phil Kaye, and Mark Doss read for refugees, as part of the Festival to Improve the World. The Wild Project, 4 p.m., $10. Monday 11/28: Jason Diamond launches Searching for John Hughes with a…

  • Black Friday Sale and Rumpus Holiday Gifts!

    Black Friday Sale and Rumpus Holiday Gifts!

    This holiday season, give the gift of The Rumpus! We have plenty of holiday gift options for the well-read optimist or literary child in your life, and we’re kicking things off with a Black Friday sale!

  • Keeping Family and Writing Separate

    Here’s a question many writers loathe: what does your family think about your writing? Nosy readers gobble up the chance to connect a story’s characters and their real-life counterparts, and writers are generally sick of having their artistic lives colliding…

  • The Read Along: Laura Goode

    The Read Along: Laura Goode

    Jesus Christ, this book is like, Toni Morrison/Susan Sontag good. This book is first viewing of Beyoncé’s Lemonade good. This book is Simone Biles good.

  • Next Letter in the Mail: Chloe Caldwell

    We’re getting ready to send out our next Letter in the Mail, and it’s from Chloe Caldwell! While cat-sitting and stressing about where to find an envelope and a stamp, Chloe writes to us on stolen paper about her life right now. Subscribe…

  • Bad Press

    Though Chloe Caldwell’s books, including her 2015 novella Women, have been praised by the likes of Lena Dunham and Cheryl Strayed, there are some critics who were not quite so enthralled. How did Caldwell handle the bad press? And how bad…

  • Women by Chloe Caldwell

    Women by Chloe Caldwell

    Sara Lautman reviews Women by Chloe Caldwell today in Rumpus Books.

  • Weekend Rumpus Roundup

    Gentrification, and analogies for it, are the focus of Mary Biddinger’s poetry collection A Sunny Place With Adequate Water, reviewed by Danielle Susi. The inhumanity of coin-operated machinery serves as a theme. Moments of “lucidity” make these poems “a little weird, a…

  • The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Chloe Caldwell

    The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Chloe Caldwell

    Chloe Caldwell talks about her new novella Women, gender nectar, break-up grief, and her impatience with analyzing the fiction/nonfiction divide.