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Whole Lotta (Middle-Aged) Love
Adam Lambert, framed in a spotlight, rises, as if levitating, onto a platform at the rear of the stage. He wears a feathered top hat, fringed jacket, black pants, boots. His sequins and glitter...
View ArticleThe Sunday Rumpus Interview: Laurie Jean Cannady
Laurie Jean Cannady seldom talks about herself, unless you force her to, even in an interview about her first book, a memoir to be released this month that recounts her childhood and all its craving....
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The Rumpus Interview with Karen Salyer McElmurray
I first met Karen Salyer McElmurray in the spring of 2011 when she was teaching in the MFA program at Georgia College & State University. As a visiting writer, I was awed by Karen’s humility and...
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What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Rape
Unsurprisingly, actresses in Hollywood have long known that Harvey Weinstein is a sexual predator, and have suffered for it. This is not an issue specific to Hollywood, but rather one that pervades...
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The Rumpus Guide to AWP 2019
AWP is almost upon us! Next week, over 12,000 attendees—writers, editors, publishers, teachers, students, and book lovers—will descend upon Portland, OR for four days of literary madness. The...
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Writing Small Moments: A Conversation with Suzanne Farrell Smith
Suzanne and I met through AWP’s Writer-to-Writer mentorship program last spring. She told me she saw something in my application that made her feel like we’d be a great match. As an emerging lyric...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #217: Sue William Silverman
In her fourth memoir, How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences, Sue William Silverman proves, once again, that stories both live inside us until we are ready to process them onto parchment and...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #224: Marcia Trahan
A man cuts a woman with a knife. On the surface, those eight words are a story in themselves. But it makes a difference who the woman is, and a big difference who is doing the slicing. A doctor...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #227: Karen Salyer McElmurray
Karen Salyer McElmurray is no stranger to the writing and publishing process. Her fifth book and third novel, Wanting Radiance, was published in late April by South Limestone. A poetic tale of a...
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Voices on Addiction: The Monster’s Matchstick Mistress
“Draw what you love about yourselves,” Ted, the therapist, says to me and a group of women. Crayons and paper are scattered across a worktable. I’m in a rehab facility in Atlanta struggling with sex...
View ArticleThis Week in Essays
At Catapult, Sarah Lyn Rogers reflects on that beautiful brief era of the early internet when we were merely minds without bodies in a nebulous virtual space. “Strangling things grow wild when you’re...
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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2020
This year has been unrelenting. America and the world continue to face a series of increasingly horrifying crises that we are ill-prepared to manage, let alone avoid. I am struggling to believe that...
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Voices On Addiction: A Conversation with James Brown and Patrick O’Neil
Memoirists James Brown and Patrick O’Neil’s new collaboration, Writing Your Way to Recovery: How Stories Can Save Our Lives, asks us to consider what might happen if we harness the tools of creative...
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What to Read When Everyone Is Talking about Rape
Unsurprisingly, actresses in Hollywood have long known that Harvey Weinstein is a sexual predator, and have suffered for it. This is not an issue specific to Hollywood, but rather one that pervades...
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