Kima Jones
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2018
A selection of AWP 2018 panels, readings, and events that we are especially excited for!
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Notable Los Angeles: 7/31–8/6
Monday 7/31: Barnard Women in Entertainment’s Reading and Conversation with Sheila Nevins for her new book You Don’t Look Your Age… and Other Fairy Tales. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. ALOUD presents Moving the Center: African Literature in African Languages. Featuring…
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Introducing the Rumpus Advisory Board
When we shared our exciting news about The Rumpus‘s future last month, I mentioned that we’d create an advisory board to help us guide the site forward. The function of the advisory board is to help when we have questions…
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Notable Los Angeles: 1/23–1/29
Tuesday 1/24: Brad Schreiber reads from and signs Revolution’s End. 7 p.m. at Chevalier’s Books. The Atlantic‘s James Hamblin presents his new book If Our Bodies Could Talk, joined in conversation with illustrator Hallie Bateman. 7:30 p.m. at The Last…
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Publishers Need Diversity, Too
The publishing industry is at a cultural turning point, with recognition and celebration of writers of color on the rise. But despite the surge in the publishing industry’s interest in works by writers of color, the people working behind the…
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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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One American Death Threat and Disaster
It is difficult to tell when Goldsmith is being genuine. That is the nature of his work, which he has suggested people don’t need to read to understand, and of his online presence.
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Kinky Reggae
Kima Jones chats with Marlon James over at Midnight Breakfast; the two touch on ghost stories, Bob Marley’s reverberations, and the danger in assuming a story’s authenticity: Some of the things that people think are invented are actually true. It’s…
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This Week in Short Fiction
This week, last week, men who have taken lives are walking away unpunished, unquestioned even. We have their victims’ names: Mike Brown. Eric Garner. We have their final words: Hands up, don’t shoot. (Six shots fired.) I can’t breathe. (Repeated…
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The Rumpus Interview with Brian Gilmore
Kima Jones talks to Brian Gilmore about returning to the ritual of everyday life after the worst of humanity has shown itself publicly, about Duke Ellington and Michael Brown and being a father to daughters.
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The Rumpus Interview with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie sits down for a discussion of her most recent novel, Americanah, interrogations of race, gendered expectations in the U.S., and the transformative power of hair.