Jennine Capó Crucet
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2020
A selection of AWP 2020 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Growing Up in the American Dream
Ploughshares talks to Jennine Capó Crucet about her new novel, Make Your Home Among Strangers, and what it was like growing up with parents who bought into the American Dream: I mean, my parents named me Jennine after the Miss America runner…
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This Week in Short Fiction: A Guide to AWP
It’s that time of year again, where writers young and old, from all corners of the country, come to congregate in one gigantic, frenetic, neurotic, alcohol-infused crowd, in a couple of fancy hotels no one can really afford, to stay…
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Facts About Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson’s original PhD committee voted to dissolve itself: that is the word they used—dissolve. I like to think of his committee as an Airborn tablet being dropped into a glass of water. The glass of water is being…
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Magic Relic City
“Maybe I don’t need to be worried, he said. You’re too weird for anyone but me to want.” An excerpt from Rumpus contributor Jennine Capó Crucet latest novel, Magic Relic City, is featured in Guernica this week and edited by…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
It’s the end of August. While most of the world is on vacation, Rumpus Books is publishing book reviews.
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How to Leave Hialeah
“Crucet is endowed with the double vision that helped Richard Wright and Salman Rushdie describe the lives of marginalized people with poignancy, humor, and rich music.”
