A Portrait of the Writing Process: Durga Chew-Bose’s Too Much and Not the Mood
The title of Durga Chew-Bose’s first collection of essays comes from an entry Virginia Woolf penned into her diary on April 11, 1931—“ I am so tired of correcting my own writing… And the cramming in...
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What to Read When You Are Stuck on an Island
The Fyre Festival, founded by Ja Rule, was supposed to be the event of the year for the wealthy, young people who could afford to attend. Hyped on Instagram by Kylie Jenner, and other people who we’ve...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Grace
The tumor is inoperable. Grace has understood this from the beginning, that there is no way out for her. At first, she was angry. She is only twenty-five. She had not expected to live a long time, but...
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Into Unbound Space: Talking with Seth Rogoff
I met Seth Rogoff on freshman move-in day at Washington University in St. Louis on the hottest day of 1995. Within weeks, we were consuming vast amounts of locally roasted coffee while co-writing my...
View ArticleAgency and Wonder: Amina Cain’s Indelicacy
To read Amina Cain is to enter tide pools of the mind. On its surface, her fiction is quiet, lovely, contained, but sit with any passage and that which seems still uncoils and comes alive. The reach of...
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The Right Wrong Note: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell’s new book, Cleanness, is both a formal and thematic expansion of the world of his first novel, What Belongs to You, which was hailed an “instant classic” by the New York Times Book...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with María Sonia Cristoff and Katherine Silver
The Rumpus Book Club chats with author María Sonia Cristoff and translator Katherine Silver about Cristoff’s innovative novel, Include Me Out (forthcoming from Transit Books on February 4, 2020),...
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A Chorus of Voices: Talking with Melissa Faliveno
Melissa Faliveno’s debut essay collection, Tomboyland, explores the physical territory of the “Driftless” area of the Midwest—a wild and unique space where the borders of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota,...
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Fundamentally, Necessarily Vulnerable: A Conversation with jamie hood
Out last December from Grieveland is how to be a good girl, the debut book by jamie hood that was named a “Best Book of 2020“ by Vogue. This 170-page hybrid collection of poetry, diary entries, and...
View ArticleHow We Create Ourselves: Second Place by Rachel Cusk
You can hear the difference in Rachel Cusk’s new novel. Her Outline trilogy redefined the narrator, as it abandoned characterization, plot, and description for the reported speech of others set in a...
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