The Rumpus Interview with Frederick Barthelme
Frederick Barthelme talks about his new novel, There Must Be Some Mistake, life after teaching, and why food from the Olive Garden is “execrable in the best possible way.”
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The Rumpus Interview with Ariel Schrag
Screenwriter and comic book artist Ariel Schrag discusses writing for different media, identity politics, and sympathizing with a straight male teen pretending to be trans in her new novel Adam.
YA Television
This summer’s debate over young adult literature has raised questions ranging from whether adults should read YA to what even counts as thee genre in the first place. The New…
Not the End of Philip Roth
Philip Roth has retired! Well, not quite. Catch him on an upcoming episode of Stephen Colbert’s show for a special segment of Colbert’s book club. Read all the details on…
When Life and Art Get Messy
A writer for Orange is the New Black talks about discovering she was gay while writing for the show: Accordingly, I was nervous about the first love scene I’d written…
David Foster Wallace Was A Comedy Nerd
Blythe Robertson unpacks David Foster Wallace’s thoughts, and impacts, on American comedy for Splitsider. Wallace often worried about the overwhelming amount of irony on television – talking heads poking fun…
Girls Girls Girls
A television show about my twenties would follow the life of a girl who is lost, literally and figuratively. There wouldn’t be a laugh track.
Hollywood, Writer: The Rumpus Interview with Brian McGreevy
Brian McGreevy has had the kind of dizzying career assent you usually only see, well, in the movies. At 28, he’s already been a working screenwriter for years and had…
TV’s Backwards Progress
One would hope that there has been steady progress in terms of the presence of women writers in television, but a recent San Diego State study suggests quite the opposite.…
THE EYEBALL: Pig Hunt and Lost Season 4
Tuesday night I had the pleasure of reading a short story at therumpus.net’s Seattle launch party, prior to a screening of the film Pig Hunt. Director Jim Isaac served up…