The Rumpus Interview with Bud Smith
The first time I met Bud Smith was at the magical Mellow Pages Library in Bushwick where guests had been gathered to read in celebration of co-founder Matt Nelson’s birthday. Smith’s reading was by far...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Joshua Mohr and Janis Cooke Newman
You’d think two writers like Joshua Mohr—author of four edgy novels, and the man the New York Times called “beat-poet cool”—and Janis Cooke Newman—who started out with a memoir about adopting her kid,...
View ArticleBrief Moments Upon the Blank Page: Moyra Davey’s Index Cards
Just over halfway through Index Cards, artist Moyra Davey’s debut essay collection, she quotes Sontag discussing Sartre’s Saint Genet, and in so doing provides a compelling description of her own...
View ArticleA Year In Rumpus Book Reviews 2020
In her 2019 review of Stephanie Strickland’s How the Universe Is Made, Rumpus contributor and book reviewer Julie Marie Wade wrote: A review, after all, isn’t a book report (mostly summative) or an...
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