America Again
I felt urgently that it was the moment to tell the story of what I’ve learned about American music—or maybe about being an American.
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The Rumpus Interview with Russell Banks
Russell Banks discusses his new book, Voyager: Travel Writings, why we are never free from our history, and how writing saved his life.
The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Veronica Dies in Jamaica
Understand that she is both the gold city in my imagination and its queen, and that her death signifies the end of that dream.
Seven Almonds
The first thing my parents bought when they earned money in America was a giant bag of almonds as a talisman for success.
Off the Island
Marlon James writes about leaving home for the New York Times Magazine: In creative writing, I teach that characters arise out of our need for them. By now, the person I created in…