God Bless Steve Almond
In Steve Almond’s new story collection, God Bless America, Almond does what he does best—eviscerate and then forgive our pitiful culture of excess.
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The Decade of Magical Thinking
A Rumpus Lamentation on What We Lost Say you took the long view of September 11, 2001, the view from the heavens, the view of a compassionate celestial being. From…
Fictionalizing Gadhafi
After decades of unlimited wealth and power, Gadhafi’s on the run. Such a steep decline from rich to running can only incite the imagination. Salon.com got a slew of authors…
Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Jennifer Close
Keep your eye on this one, I said. As so often happens when I say this, Jennifer is now more famous than I am.
“We Love You From the Start” (Today!)
The Rumpus and the Bay Citizen are excited to announce our next monthly event, “We Love You From the Start.” August’s event features a slew of brilliant writers: Melissa Febos,…
New Tin House Podcast
From our Pacific Northwesterly neighbors, a new Tin House podcast featuring Steve Almond for your enjoyment. Steve Almond provides a lecture from last summer’s Writer’s Workshop, “Everything They Told You…
Winter in America: A Musical Lamentation Offered on the Passing of Gil Scott-Heron
Gil Scott-Heron died on May 27, at age 62. As I write this, there’s no official cause of death. We’ll know soon enough. This is America, after all. Whatever the…
Super Hot Prof on Student Word Sex: Jane Roper
Talk me through the class in which we met. Anything you can remember that doesn’t involve how poorly I dressed.
Look Back in Horror: The Rumpus Interview with David Sirota
David Sirota writes a weekly column that appears in dozens of newspapers. He has his own radio show. And he’s a frequent guest on cable TV gabfests. These facts should…
D.I.Y. Steve
Publishing Perspectives covers Rumpus contributor and “literary rock star” Steve Almond’s D.I.Y. success.
Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand
(Yet Another) Rumpus Lamentation: It’s a sunny winter day in Tucson, Arizona. There’s an event being held in the parking lot of a supermarket called Safeway.
Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Alissa Nutting
She had chosen to defy all reasonable laws of feminine desire by spurning me as a sexual object. And yet she had managed to publish a book.