essays
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Keep Doubt Alive with Essays
If you’re a regular Rumpus reader, you probably like essays. And if you like essays, you’ll probably enjoy this New York Times opinion piece about their literary and social value: Ever since Michel de Montaigne, the founder of the modern essay,…
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My Heart is an Idiot Book Trailer
Earlier this month, we spoke with Davy Rothbart about the his new collection, My Heart Is an Idiot, lauded in this week’s Rumpus review as “16 essays that read like early Jack Kerouac, if you substituted Charlie Parker for Dr. Dre.”…
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Money Novels
In the current issue of BookForum, Christian Lorentzen, an editor at the London Review of Books, writes about “the perils of money fiction” in the twenty-first century. “There are a few ways out of these traps—ersatz journalistic gap filling, hapless…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Rumpus Books had one hell of a week this week, and today’s a good day as any to catch up.
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’s Sunday again, that day where you get to see what Rumpus Books has been up to this week, all in one handy little roundup.
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The Rumpus Interview with Margaret Cho
Margaret Cho talks about BDSM, vanilla sex, Eddie Murphy, fame, comedy, bad TV, learning guitar, writing books, and making music.
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To Preserve One Life
A Review of Writing in the Dark, by David Grossman BY BRIAN SCHWARTZ In the Hebrew language, I am sure, there are several different ways to say “enemy.” I have little grasp of what these words might be. I imagine…