The Sunday Rumpus Book Review: The Amazing Heft of Wendy Ortiz’s Hollywood...
Writerly ambition is a potent force. It can be the driving force of a life. If you’ve been bitten by this snake in the garden of your own reading and writing, you know it immediately. But you can’t...
View ArticleWeekend Rumpus Roundup
For National Poetry Month Days 25 & 26, Christian Anton Gerard and Ada Limon provide us with poems of love and luck.Then, Sean Donovan has good things to say in his Saturday Review of the film It...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Jessa Crispin
I felt intensely jealous when I first encountered the premise of Jessa Crispin’s essay collection The Dead Ladies Project: when she was thirty, Crispin sold all of her belongings that wouldn’t fit in a...
View ArticleThree Collections in Two Volumes by August Kleinzahler
Steve Winn, in his lovely San Francisco Chronicle piece about two recent books by August Kleinzahler, spent much more space on Kleinzahler’s essay collection, Sallies, Romps, Portraits, and Send-Offs:...
View ArticleThe Genius and the Nobody: Lynne Tillman’s Men and Apparitions
There are girl girls and boy girls and boy boys and girl boys, I once heard Eileen Myles tell Lynne Tillman. You, she said, are a masculine writer. (I’m paraphrasing.) The two of them were discussing...
View ArticleLove under Capitalism: Sally Rooney’s Normal People
A couple of weeks before I read Sally Rooney’s Normal People my best friend told me he didn’t believe in love. He wasn’t heartbroken or disillusioned—on the contrary, he has recently married and moved...
View ArticleThe Lenses We Can’t See: A Conversation with Howard Axelrod
Ancient mariners used to rely on the stars in the sky to guide their way. These days, we depend on our smartphones—“the stars in our pockets”—to help navigate it all. We use them to choose where to...
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