The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cynthia Dewi Oka
Cynthia Dewi Oka discusses her new collection, FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY.
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Posts Tagged: fire
Radical Enough
I still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.
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That Little Bit of Magic: A Conversation with Ramiza Shamoun Koya
Ramiza Shamoun Koya discusses her debut novel, THE ROYAL ABDULS.
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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
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ENOUGH: Flesh and Bone and Ash
A Rumpus series of work by women and non-binary writers that engages with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
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Trudging Down Death Road
Reveal yourself. Reveal yourself. You cannot be dead. Reveal yourself.
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Room to Roam: Talking with Karen Auvinen
Karen Auvinen discusses her debut memoir, ROUGH BEAUTY.
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The World of the Book: Talking with Elizabeth McCracken
Elizabeth McCracken discusses her new novel, BOWLAWAY.
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Still Standing
I whisper into my own ear: you are safe, you don’t need to run.
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Sweet Bird
Every story needs to begin in a place of stasis, a comfortable zero.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #149: Susan Orlean
“I believe a writer should know a lot more than what she puts on the page.”
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Marnie Marie Lit a Match
The only way to guarantee a secret is for the only person to know about it be you.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #110: Gabrielle Bell
“We create little rituals to give us some kind of illusion of safety, to keep ourselves sane.”
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Gabrielle Bell
Gabrielle Bell discusses her forthcoming graphic memoir, Everything Is Flammable, what it was like to mine her own life for subject matter, and how anxiety affects her work.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Straw House
“It’s not healthy, how you live. People aren’t meant to sleep all day. We need the sun. We’re meant to live in the sun.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Lucy Jane Bledsoe discusses her latest book, A Thin Bright Line, uncovering the remarkable story of her aunt, and illuminating history through the lens of imagination.
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Bookbinding may be a dying art, but at Lit Hub, Dwyer Murphy tells the story of a man who keeps his business going strong on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. For Hazlitt, Suzannah Showler takes a measured look at the prepper community and at the idea of preparation itself.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce
Iben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce discuss the translation of Justine, Mondrup’s 2012 Danish novel about a young artist in Denmark.
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #12: What Is Safety?
Oh better far to live and die Under the brave black flag I fly Then play a sanctimonious part With a pirate head and a pirate heart!! –The Pirates of Penzance At fifteen years old, I was a runaway. It was perhaps 9:30 at night, my first night out, having hitchhiked a couple of hundred […]
...morePost-Election Dispatch: Charleston, SC
Right now as I write this, smoke from fires in the southeastern Appalachian Mountains haze the morning. We’re under orange alert—the air quality bad enough that schoolchildren will stay indoors today. This morning the coastal flooding is up again thanks to the powerful tidal pulls of the recent supermoon. On my errand this morning, I […]
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Woman at Standing Rock
I think back and then here, where I can only think of beasts with stains: oil and blood. They have become as familiar as an oil-stained cloth in a garage, or the things we ignore, just there in the light.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Losing at Memory
But I didn’t understand, then, how important memory is, for how do we know who we are without memory? How does anyone else know who we are, but for their memories of us?
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Sound Takes: Here the Blue River & Rumpus Video Premiere
She takes a simple story and turns it into something the listener can hold in the palm of their hand.
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D & K’s Fried Fish
In the yard of the single-wide trailer that will haunt you for the rest of your life, watch as your father pulls fish from the cooler, one by one.
...moreGuided By Voices Are Back (Again)
Sort of. According to Pitchfork, Guided by Voices will be playing the Sled Island music festival in Calgary this summer. The confirmed line-up includes Robert Pollard (of course), Bobby Bare Jr., Kevin March, Nick Mitchell, and Mark Shue—so not exactly a full reunion, but we’ll take what we can get. Pollard has a new solo album, Of Course You Are, coming out […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Deborah Reed
Author Deborah Reed discusses her latest novel, Olivay, the necessity of fire, Los Angeles anxiety, and how she found fulfillment at the edge of the American West.
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Jonathan Travelstead
I try to…consider the writing process as seriously as I do entering a house with black smoke puffing from its eaves.
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
To start, love gets metaphorically steam cleaned by Grant Snider. Brandon Hicks adds his two cents with “The Hierarchy” of artistic and literary achievement. Meanwhile, Oliver Bendorf experiments with line and repetition in “Both/Both” and joy greets Katherine Ossip in “Innocence: A Memoir,” both part of our National Poetry Month series. Check back daily for a […]
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