This is where poetry approaches music. Because you cannot put meaning in words as intellectually comprehensible. It’s just there, and you know it’s there. And it is the rhythm and…
The Millions staff writer Nick Ripatrazone examines literature that “embraces the power of radio” and highlights the sounds of language: Radio is elegiac. Radio is the theater of the mind: our eyes…
I sort of just follow the impulse to go there and to sit with an uncomfortable emotion or an uncomfortable physical thing. In conversation with radio host David Naimon, writer…
Radio is undergoing the sort of DIY revolution that journalism faced with the advent of blogs. If ‘Out on the Wire’ helps convince the legions of amateur podcasters that good…
Producer, senior editor, Afropop expert, and author Banning Eyre talks about his new book, Lion Songs, a 15-years-in-the-making biography of Zimbabwe’s legendary musician Thomas Mapfumo.
Portrait of a lady serial killer. Can Silicon Valley save our schools? Talking to women on the Internet is hard work. The Apple of Prisons? And that isn’t even the…
Every generation has its reservations about popular music—all the same, the last few market-driven decades have undoubtedly left their own, new, unique mark on its most contemporary manifestations. Still, there…
What do you want when you are young and itching with anticipation for the life you’ve always imagined yourself living? Everything. You want everything.
Last year we did something called Letters to Each Other, where Rumpus readers sent us a letter, and we sent you back six letters from other people. We think we want…