“The Dean of the Clerks”
If the Strand is a palace for books, then Ben McFall is king—of its fiction section, at least. A New York Times profile of McFall discusses his history with, knowledge of,…
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The Last Neighborhood I Loved: Rockaway, Queens
Late summer 2005 and everything’s under water. The news warns us that New York City could be the next New Orleans—flooded subways, ten thousand shattered windows.
The Last City I Loved: New York
I liked the place; I liked the idea of the place, was in a fortune cookie I once ate while living in New York.
The Lightning Came Without Rain
Nina Schuyler reviews Lightning People by Christopher Bollen today in Rumpus Books.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #45: Chloe Caldwell in Conversation with Sarah Kilborne
I interviewed author, Sarah Kilborne, who lives in the same town as I do, Hudson, New York, and takes banjo lessons downstairs in my father’s music store that I live…
The Intimates
Ralph Sassone’s first novel explores the devastating emotional craters of first love, and the bumpy, baffling relations between the generations.
The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #33: A Touch of Goth in Old New York’s Little Italy
When your mother-in-law pushes aside Elizabeth Street, the acclaimed novel by Laurie Fabiano, and says “She didn’t get it right,” it’s time to pull up a chair and listen. Christina…
Walt Whitman’s Watering Hole: Pfaff’s Cellar, NYC
Whitman became a regular at Pfaff’s after getting fired from the Brooklyn Daily Times in 1859. The years before the Civil War were a decadent period where Whitman played the…
The Rumpus Interview with Jonathan Lethem
"I don’t go down wrong paths; I’d rather stare at the screen and delete until I’ve put something down that is working."
You Caught Me
Tao Lin’s characters are constantly connected, yet physically detached. The technology they live and breathe often seems less mechanical than its users.
Swinging Modern Sounds #13: On Loops
These lines depend on your having a working knowledge of the New York City suburbs.
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #19
I will remind you that you were not born into this world to suffer. Nobody is, actually.