Next Letter in the Mail: Rob Roberge
We’re getting ready to send out the next Letter in the Mail! Rob Roberge pens an 8-pager about his father, and the guilt he feels regarding a particular scene in his upcoming memoir.…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
In “Hunting For The Little Prince,” Sigal Samuel invites us to tag along as she pursues the real-life inspiration for the blonde-haired protagonist of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s famous children’s book.…
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Crazy
"We live in a culture where it can seem like everyone wants to be troubled. Nobody wants to be crazy...The story arc of mental illness does not conform to the redemption tale."
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Sean Madigan Hoen
"I wanted to convey the ecstatic experience of performing really destructive music, and to articulate the kind of raw need that drives young people to do so."
THE LAST BOOK I LOVED: The Cost of Living
Anna March explains why THE COST OF LIVING by Rob Roberge is the last book she loved.
Swinging Modern Sounds #47: A Further Miscellany
This column collects a bunch of albums (and, in one case, a book by a writer/musician) that I have loved a great deal in the last six months, as well as exactly one album that I think is not worth the hype.
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
There are no holiday weekends in August, but there are weekend Rumpus roundups. If you feel like you need a hundred-year-nap, you might relate to Saturday’s comic by Yumi Sakugawa.…
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Literary Fiction’s Dilemma
If literary fiction offers an alternative to more mainstream "narratives of reassurance," can the oft-cited moral experiment of Heinz's Dilemma help us understand why such challenging work isn't more popular?
The Rumpus Interview With Rob Roberge
Two years ago, Rob Roberge and I lost our publishers when the presses set to release our forthcoming books simultaneously collapsed within a couple of months of each other
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Hey, if you haven’t had the chance to take a look at all the stuff Rumpus Books has been up to lately, you should probably do that now.
Point of View and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Flexible First Person
We spend an enormous amount of our lives ... thinking about other people, their motives, their desires and their opinions.