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  • Notable New York: 8/12-8/18

    Monday 08.12 The Franklin Park Reading Series is back this week and is something of a special line-up as they’re featuring a few poets, which is a rare occurrence for the series. The line-up includes the great short story author…

  • Rumpus, Readings

    Today’s essay by Saeed Jones, “How Men Fight For Their Lives,” is not only a must-read but also kicks of our new Rumpus, Readings feature. The brainchild of essays editor Roxane Gay, Rumpus, Readings will accompany select original essays and…

  • Meta: A Rumpus Editor Ponders The Fate of The Rumpus

    I’m not exactly an insider here at The Rumpus. I’m not really an outsider either. I’m the Sunday editor.

  • “The reader is always doing you a favor.”

    The Daily Rumpus is an email Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes and sends out anywhere from two to five times a week. Most of them are not posted online, but subscribing is free. Just send an email here. This is…

  • Popular Science Online Forever!

    Hey fellow nerds, guess what? Every Popular Science has gone online! All 137 years. And it’s free! And it’s searchable! It’s much better than watching the Oscars. I promise. I did a search for “Rumpus” and came up with this…

  • No Home I’d Call My Own

    Stephen Elliott explores Christmas in yesterday’s New York Times. Here’s an excerpt. In the group homes, holidays weren’t so bad because we teenagers were all in the same parentless boat. Depending on the home, we would be given presents and…

  • Welcome to Rumpus Books

    At The Rumpus, we believe that a healthy literary culture is one which embraces writing of all kinds, by authors of all stripes – young and old, established and emerging, traditional and experimental, writing from the margins or from (or…