The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Rick Moody
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Rick Moody about his new book Hotels of North America, unreliable narrators, hotel porn, how titles are uncopyrightable, and Internet comment sections.
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Without Boundaries or Beginnings or Ends
That truth lives in my body, next to the bullet that’s still in my back.
Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #7: Guns
Guns are pervasive in American society. Whether it is the prominent role they frequently play in various forms of entertainment or the epidemic of gun violence, it seems they are…
The Rumpus Interview with Neil Smith
Author Neil Smith discusses his latest book, Boo, the suffering inherent in being thirteen years old, and how friendship can help pull us through traumatic events in our lives.
His Helmet Off, Raising It High
This was the most important moment of my life. I know it because after Number One died I started to realize I could kill myself too.
Reasonable Cause
The Torres family learned how Christopher died from watching the news the next day. At a press conference, the department’s chief public-safety officer said that two officers had tried to…
Shots in the Dark
For The American Reader, Adrian Van Young examines the pervasiveness of gun violence in fiction and how it relates to the brutality of the real world.
Ferguson: A Rumpus Roundup
On Saturday, August 9, an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by a police officer. The boy was on his way home from a convenience store in…
The True American by Anand Giridharadas
The True American is an intellectually agile and incessantly compelling portrait of post-9/11 America—of what we are and of what we might become.
The Truth is Ugly
In light of this history that Vann has uncovered, in light of more recent tragedies, the questions remain, as then, the same: How did this happen? What might we learn from this?
Staving-off-Despair Roundup
When there’s an injustice as great a man walking free after killing an unarmed teenager, at least we have writing to turn to. Our essays editor Roxane Gay has done…
Columbine, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, Tucson, Aurora, Newtown: An Etiology
“Guns are not simply tools or commodities; they are instruments of social power."