The Last Book I Loved: Took House
Wildness both compels and repels.
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Posts Tagged: pandemic
Candy from Strangers: A Conversation with Jennifer Egan
We can try to perform our inner lives, but we can’t actually reveal them. We can create a simulacrum, which is so much of what I see on social media, and that simulacrum is entertainment. It’s exciting because we all love the whiff of authenticity, and the more mediated our culture feels, the more we crave it, but we can’t actually give it away. We cannot actually break through the barrier of our individual aloneness.
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Apocalypse Yesterday: Chi Ta-wei’s The Membranes
The Membranes is a climate novel not because it contends with catastrophe, but because it shows that everydayness has a way of proceeding alongside disaster.
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A Cosmic Wade Through Uncertainty: Talking with Sequoia Nagamatsu
Talking with Sequoia Nagamatsu about HOW HIGH WE GO IN THE DARK.
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Learning the Hard Way: A Conversation with Kate Baer
Kate Baer discusses her new poetry collection, HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Cynthia Dewi Oka
Cynthia Dewi Oka discusses her new collection, FIRE IS NOT A COUNTRY.
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The Aesthetics of Safety
I find beauty in being protected from danger.
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We Do What We Can: A Conversation with Ryka Aoki
Ryka Aoki discusses her second novel, LIGHT FROM UNCOMMON STARS.
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Picasso Shares His Screen
The faces of the students appeared one by one, both there and not.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Amanda Moore
Amanda Moore discusses her debut collection, REQUEENING.
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Rumpus Original Fiction: What Wasn’t
She gave him a small, relieved laugh. In another world, she replied.
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Writing Toward Surprise: A Conversation with Leslie Pietrzyk
Leslie Pietrzyk discusses her new story collection, ADMIT THIS TO NO ONE.
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Writing from the Bottom: Active Reception by Noah Ross
Active Reception writes into the place where language fails.
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Making Sure It Fits: A Conversation with Jon Chaiim McConnell
Jon Chaiim McConnell discusses his new novella, THRUM.
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Derrick Austin
Derrick Austin discusses his new poetry collection, TENDERNESS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Wendy J. Fox
Wendy J. Fox discusses her new story collection, WHAT IF WE WERE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
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From the Outside In: Talking with Ellene Glenn Moore
Ellene Glenn Moore discusses her debut poetry collection, HOW BLOOD WORKS.
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Pine Street
Did you see an animal? Did you see a bird? What did you see when you looked at me?
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Carly Inghram
Carly Inghram discusses her new poetry collection, THE ANIMAL INDOORS.
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The Resumes of Identity We Present to Strangers: A Conversation with Dolly Alderton
Dolly Alderton discusses her new novel, GHOSTS.
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson discusses her new book, ON FREEDOM: FOUR SONGS OF CARE AND CONSTRAINT.
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Bones of Buried Kings
What makes a body violable? This jaw, a piece of evidence. This body, the remains of a life.
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Tracing the Wolf
To brand myself with something I feared and sought to subdue seemed like a reclamation.
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Spotlight: “How to Keep in Touch”
How much time do I want with others? How much time do I want with myself?
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Reimagining Place in the Pandemic
This collection suggests again and again that poets and poetry are conjoined with such places—found on a map and indelibly mapped to the psyche.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Aruni Kashyap
“[T]he testimonial form is rebellious; it says that it will record what the state tried to erase.”
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The Past Is All We Have: André Aciman’s Homo Irrealis
Is it not in the warm chambers of the past, after all, that we are immortal, invincible, and alive?
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