When The Rent’s Due Soon
“After opening my post on many mornings, I indulge in a few minutes of anguish and muted screams, then devote the next hour or more, if necessary, to tackling the mess.When I have satisfied myself that...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Before I say anything about book blog land today, I want to thank Brian Spears, our Poetry and Saturday Editor here at The Rumpus, for putting together some of the best information on Haiti I’ve been...
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This Week in Short Fiction: Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo
“The world is not magical. We make it magical all of a sudden inside us, and nobody finds out until many years later.” So wrote Silvina Ocampo from her home in Buenos Aires in 1987. With the arrival...
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The Rumpus Interview with Jamie Kornegay
Jamie Kornegay blends the rural and the urban, the organic and the inorganic, the rustic past and the technological future. Kornegay is a writer, a bookstore owner, and a trained journalist. But, like...
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Carol
In an early scene of Carol, lonely department store clerk Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) begins her shift in the quiet darkness of a store soon mobbed by shoppers. The decorations are chintzy but warm:...
View ArticleHappy Endings
So I didn’t understand how radical The Price of Salt was, how strange and fabulist it is in parts, how hallucinatory and real. I didn’t know how revelatory a book could be to a life lived trying so...
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You Might Never Find Your Way Back: Shirley Jackson’s Hangsaman
To readers in 1951, Shirley Jackson’s second novel Hangsaman (reissued this year by Penguin with an introduction by Francine Prose) must have come as quite a shock. It lacked the smooth, consistent...
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Sylvia Plath and Reclaiming the Gaze
The “One Life: Sylvia Plath” exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC evokes a certain kind of worship. I went because my world was starting to feel small in the way it always does...
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What to Read When You Can’t Invite Your Queer Family Over for Dinner
When I decided to write what would become my hybrid memoir, The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!, I knew the project would pay homage to my queer ancestors—those who helped shape me as an artist and...
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We Are Not Gods: Talking with Elizabeth Ellen
It could be said Elizabeth Ellen is a literary godmother in the indie lit scene. As the deputy editor of Hobart Pulp, she has published countless emerging writers, generously giving of her time to...
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