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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Stephanie Vaughn
In January of 2001, optimistic and slightly at sea at the start of my final college semester, I walked into the University of Wisconsin’s student bookstore in search of an anthology edited by a writer...
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #125
MY MAGNIFYING GLASS★★★★★ (5 out of 5)Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my magnifying glass.Like any properly-made magnifying glass, mine...
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The Rumpus Review of Rampart
If we can take away one thing from history it’s that it often repeats itself. The Kent State massacre in 1970 was one of the first instances where the media shined a light on the corruption of police...
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The Rumpus Interview with Cassie Jaye
Documentary filmmaker Cassie Jaye landed the Best Documentary Award at Cannes Film Festival for her film, Daddy I Do in 2010 — about the controversial religious ceremony Purity Balls, where girls from...
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Why I Chose Linda Hogan’s Indios for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Book Club Board Member Camille Dungy on why she chose Linda Hogan’s Indios as March’s selection.Sometimes a book teaches me more than I knew I needed to know. Linda Hogan’s Indios is such...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat With D. A. Powell
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with D.A. Powell about his poetry collection Useless Landscape, or A Guide For Boys.This is an edited transcript of the Poetry Book Club discussion with D.A.Powell....
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The Rumpus Interview with Leni Zumas
Leni Zumas has written an affecting, sad, and undeniably original debut novel, The Listeners. Her narrator, Quinn, is a synesthete who struggles with life after the death of her sister via stray bullet...
View ArticleSATURDAY HISTORY LESSON: Rebecca West, H.G. Wells, and Anthony Panther West
She’s always the subject of grand narratives about the “strong,” “modern,” or “new” woman, but it ought to go without saying that Rebecca West, the grand dame of criticism of her day, was not all...
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10 Tales of Mischievous, Dangerous, and Illegal Love Letters
Turn-of-the-century newspapers loved love letters. Legal dramas and criminal cases played out on the front pages like romantic serials, and the plots often hinged on letters sweet, bitter, true, false,...
View ArticleWhere I Write #24: I Don’t Know Where I Write
I don’t know where I write. Couldn’t begin to tell you. I’m not being coy, I’m serious. I look at my books, the piles of uncollected work, and they just seem to have appeared. I can’t create any images...
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