Observations from Occupy Des Moines
The Occupy Movement is under attack in major cities across the country, and with the weather turning colder, occupiers find themselves facing new obstacles. This is a report from the Des Moines...
View ArticleGirls in the Grass
I tell Hairy Mary’s mom that I get $466.00 a month in social security and she can have the whole thing for food and lights and stuff, if she’ll let me stay. Hairy Mary is a year ahead of me at Holy...
View ArticleThe Hole in the Fence at the End of N 7th
We might as well have met. That person we know in common, how is she? Though you may have been before me, or I before you, we have been, both of us. We live in New York City. To ask why is to invite so...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Tess Taylor
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Tess Taylor about her new collection Work & Days, manual labor, and the lyric possibilities in small fields.This is an edited transcript of the book club...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Texas book publisher Deep Vellum Books has found a partner to keep the publisher’s bookstore operational and now plans a grand opening for the store, a year after soft opening.The Lit Bar will become...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Book Club Interviews Hilton Als
This is an edited transcript of the book club discussion with Hilton Als about White Girls. Every month The Rumpus Book Club hosts a discussion online with the book club members and the author, and we...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Nikki Wallschlaeger
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Nikki Wallschlaeger about her new collection Crawlspace, why she chose to work with the sonnet form, and how segregation in American never ended. This is an...
View ArticleThrown Off Balance: Talking with Malinda McCollum
In Malinda McCollum’s debut story collection, The Surprising Place (winner of the 2017 Juniper Prize for Fiction), readers meet striking, indelibly drawn characters that habitually walk a thin line...
View ArticleThe Mentor Series: Leslie Jamison and Elizabeth McCracken
For the fifth installment of The Mentor Series, we’re very pleased to bring you this conversation between Leslie Jamison and her mentor Elizabeth McCracken. Leslie Jamison is the author of the New York...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Andrés Cerpa
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Andrés Cerpa about his new collection The Vault (Alice James Books, June 2021), writing grief while keeping some information private, how writing a book can...
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