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Tod Goldberg
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Ask Yourself a Question and Give Yourself an Answer
Excellent. When you’re asked, “Where do you get your inspiration?” what do you wish you could say, but keep to yourself? That as a child, my parents fucked me up,…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
The “the stirring, hot-blooded motion” of the poems in Irene McKinney’s collection Have You Had Enough Darkness Yet? is striking, given its posthumous publication. Charlie Atkinson reviews this “curious” and…
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Tod Goldberg
"We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it...It’s a very American ideal—the freedom to break the law."
The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Living Desert
"The simple truth of having lived in the desert for most of my life [is that] unprepared people don’t 'go missing' in the desert in the middle of summer. What happens is that they die."
The Rumpus Interview with Literary Disco
Julia Pistell, Rider Strong, and Tod Goldberg—writers and the hosts of the podcast Literary Disco—talk with us about the show's origin story, book criticism in the age of social media, and their upcoming live podcast.
“The Sexualization of Violence” and Comic-Con
There’s no easier way to recruit a legion of mortal enemies than to say something unflattering about the culture of comic books, but I’ve decided that I have nothing to…