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The Rumpus Book Club

Feb 23, 2021

The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Randa Jarrar

Randa Jarrar discusses her new memoir, LOVE IS AN EX-COUNTRY.
Features & Reviews, Rumpus Original

Andrew Zingg

Aug 24, 2018

Follow Your Nose: A Conversation with Daniel Gumbiner

Daniel Gumbiner discusses his debut novel, THE BOATBUILDER.
Other

Kirstin Allio

Jun 9, 2016

Free Rant

Pete Ross takes huge issue with the infiltration of content marketers and voracious “personal brand” builders at Medium and elsewhere. His point is clear: writing is more than posturing to sell yourself as a writer: All you’re trying to do…
Rumpus Original

Michael Lowenthal

Apr 15, 2016

Used-Car Salesman

I wondered if he understood my joke, or its evasion, but surely he knew a used-car salesman always fudged his story. In fact, the car had been in my possession all of three weeks. Also, it didn’t exactly belong to…
Features & Reviews, Film, Rumpus Original

Nicholas Rombes

Jul 12, 2013

You Might Never Find Your Way Back: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman

There are other odd, improbable, tenuous connections, as if Hangsaman had a secret way of speaking to (or through) other artifacts beyond its time.
Art, Rumpus Original

Timothy Leo Taranto

Jan 11, 2013

Literary Puns

Timothy Leo Taranto illustrates some of literature’s greats, including David Foster Wallace and Gromit, Flan-nery O’Connor, and John Frankensteinbeck.