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David Breithaupt: The Last Book I Loved, West of Jesus: Surfing, Science and...
I generally shy away from books with Jesus in the title. Everyone deserves their own trip, as they used to say in the sixties, and Jesus was never really mine. Not that I dislike Jesus, but I really...
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The Rumpus Interview with Colby Buzzell
Colby Buzzell was a bored 25 year-old, weary of working dead-end, hand-to-mouth jobs when he decided it would be more exciting and pay better to shoot machine guns in Iraq. After a visit to his local...
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The Rumpus Interview with Charles Bowden
For over a decade Charles Bowden has chronicled the nightmare that is Juarez, Mexico. Situated on the border opposite of El Paso, Juarez has become the icon for all things corrupt and violent in Mexico...
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The Rumpus Interview with Boris Fishman
Boris Fishman’s debut novel A Replacement Life is a panoramic reel of love, grief, and loyalty set among the Russian-Jewish immigrants of Brooklyn, New York.Young Slava Gelman wants away from the...
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The Rumpus Interview with Benjamin Parzybok
Set in the familiar not-so-distant-future, Benjamin Parzybok’s latest novel, Sherwood Nation, delivers a what if plotline of ecological disaster. His story unfolds in Portland, Oregon, amidst an...
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The Rumpus Interview with Sean Wilsey
Sean Wilsey, San Francisco’s bad boy made good and author of a memoir of childhood delinquency, Oh The Glory of It All, is back with a collection of essays titled More Curious, which catalog his...
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The Rumpus Interview with Janice Erlbaum
Janice Erlbaum’s debut novel, I, Liar, is centered on the fragile patchwork that exists between mothers and daughters. Her two previous memoirs, Girlbomb (2006) and Have You Found Her (2008), recount...
View ArticleFrederick Tuten Remembers Jenny Diski
Writer Frederick Tuten recalls the first fan letter he ever wrote to novelist Jenny Diski. What followed was a friendship which lasted until her death last month from cancer. Back in 1999, Tuten...
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Feeding Your Head: The History of LARB
Hungry intellectuals are flocking to the Los Angeles Review of Books. Here is the humble story of how LARB came into being in April of 2011. Reader Matthew Weiner (of Mad Men fame) says:It speaks to...
View ArticleBookslut Bids Farewell
Well the only reason Bookslut was interesting was because it didn’t make money, and when I realized the sacrifices I was going to have to make in order for it to make money, it wasn’t worth it. It used...
View ArticleBad Press
Though Chloe Caldwell’s books, including her 2015 novella Women, have been praised by the likes of Lena Dunham and Cheryl Strayed, there are some critics who were not quite so enthralled. How did...
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The Rumpus Interview with William Hjorstberg
William Hjorstberg may be best known for the occult thriller, Falling Angel, which was made into the movie Angel Heart, directed by Alan Parker and staring Lisa Bonet, Robert De Niro, and Mickey...
View ArticleTo Cheat or Not to Cheat
Life coach, Rumpus columnist, and novelist Rick Moody lends his ear to those at the crossroads of love over at Lit Hub. This week, he addresses the unfaithful:And: what we’re talking about, here,...
View ArticleFinding Love in the Age of Trump
It’s called Maple Match and it’s the brainchild of a 25-year-old Texan named Joe Goldman whose site promises to “make dating great again.A new dating site matches Americans with anti-Trump sentiments...
View ArticleWhen in Cleveland
Why not cap off your visit to the Republican Convention in Cleveland by renting the childhood home of Jeffrey Dahmer for the summer? It’s a steal at only $8,000:“The Bath Township home is site of...
View ArticleDressed to Kill
Italy has always provided the cutting edge in fashion. Now, the cutting edge is providing the fashion. Italian women in prison are now producing top-of-the-line fashion items that are pretty...
View ArticleThe Only Way to Travel
A new exhibit, Fantastic Worlds: Science and Fiction 1780–1910, is on view at the newly renovated Smithsonian Libraries Gallery at the National Museum of American History. The exhibit explores the...
View ArticleSummer of Love
Charlotte Shane, best known for her newsletter portraying her life as a sex worker and philosopher, Prostitute Laundry, now has a column at Fusion. Her collected writings are also available in her...
View ArticleLook Away, Dixie Land
Two stained glass panels depicting the Confederate flag in Washington’s National Cathedral are being removed. The windows were installed to memorialize Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson:They may have...
View ArticleWhipping up a Frenzy
As an intern at the Corcoran, I suddenly understood the power of art.When a 1989 Washington DC Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit was cancelled, young art major Jack Ludden found himself beginning his career...
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