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The Weekly Rumpus
We’ve just launched The Weekly Rumpus! The Weekly Rumpus is free to download to your iPad or iPhone and includes the first issue. We don’t yet have an Android version, but we will, oh, we will.WTF is...
View ArticleThe MFA Mailbag
Tom Kealey, author of The Creative Writing MFA Handbook, has opened up the mailbag at the MFA blog. People can post their thoughts and concerns and get answers now through February.Unrelated, the book...
View ArticleNow Accepting Fiction
We’re now accepting original fiction for The Weekly Rumpus! Our original books editor Andrew Altschul has agreed to come on as fiction editor for The Weekly Rumpus. Submission guidelines here.Every...
View ArticleThis Week’s Original Fiction
In this week’s Weekly Rumpus (and in every Weekly Rumpus) we’ll be featuring original fiction. Soon we’re going to add original poetry too, and book reviews. The Weekly Rumpus is sort of like The...
View ArticleThis Week’s Weekly Rumpus
In this week’s Weekly Rumpus, a not yet published essay on making a lasting love without co-habitating, original fiction by Edward Schwarzschild, plus Rick Moody, HORN! Reviews, and the price of...
View ArticleThe (still) Weekly Rumpus
The Weekly Rumpus is starting to come into its own. This week we have original fiction from Lucy Corin who third book of fiction, One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses has just been released....
View ArticleOur New Favorite Onion Article
We don’t usually link to stuff like this, after all, we’re a literary site. But we’re also full of contradictions. Man Who Plays Devil’s Advocate Really Just Wants To Be An Asshole.Related Posts:No...
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The Rumpus Interview with Audrey Petty
In the gripping first-person accounts of High Rise Stories, former residents of Chicago’s iconic public housing projects describe life in the now-demolished high rises. These stories of community,...
View ArticleThe Weekly Rumpus in PDF
Here is a partial example of our Weekly Rumpus PDF. You can subscribe monthly here, or don’t subscribe and purchase yearly here. The Weekly Rumpus PDF is sent out every Wednesday as an email...
View ArticleWhat’s in this weeks Weekly Rumpus?
The Weekly Rumpus goes out today, featuring a new Lonely Voice from Peter Orner, short fiction by Lauren Grodstein, Steve Almond’s interview with a former student, original poems by Kelly Davio, and a...
View ArticleDeath Of An Adjunct
“I called Adult Protective Services right after talking to Margaret Mary, and I explained the situation. I said that she had just been let go from her job as a professor at Duquesne, that she was given...
View ArticleSeriously?
“…as well as two recent incidents where guns carried in women’s purses have discharged accidentally.” Starbucks seeks to keep guns out of its coffee shops.Related Posts:No related posts…
View ArticleFantasy Football Saturday
I was going to write a Daily Rumpus today and then I realized all I felt like writing about was fantasy football. And I know we already have a fantasy football column, even one of which is a lot for a...
View ArticleTotal Eclipse Of The Heart
Total Eclipse Of The Heart by Bonnie Tyler, the literal version. After the jump.Related Posts:No related posts…
View ArticleLetters To The Editor
To send a letter to The Weekly Rumpus write an email to Stephen AT stephenelliott.com, with the subject line: Dear Rumpus, or, Dear Editors, or, Dear Steve (though to be honest, that one makes me feel...
View ArticleWhite Girls
This month, in The Rumpus Book Club, we’re reading White Girls, by Hilton Als, his first book in fourteen years.The book is being released November 12 by McSweeney’s but we’re sending the book out a...
View ArticleThe Artemas Poems
Friend of The Rumpus, Jerry Wemple, is coming out with a new poetry collection next year. We’re excited about it, and excited to be a place that gets excited about poetry. You can pre-order a copy...
View ArticleThe New Buzzfeed Books Editor
Isaac Fitzgerald continues to get written up everywhere.Related Posts:No related posts…
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The Rumpus/Guernica Holiday Spectacular
Join us for The Rumpus/Guernica Holiday Spectacular in New York City, December 9, 7 to 11pm.Co-Hosted by Buzzfeed Books.Featuring music by Alina Simone, readings from Geoff Dyer and Saeed Jones, and...
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The Rumpus/Guernica Holiday Spectacular!
Join us for The Rumpus/Guernica Holiday Spectacular in New York City, December 9, 7 to 11pm.Co-Hosted by Buzzfeed Books.Featuring music by Alina Simone, readings from Geoff Dyer and Saeed Jones, and...
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