Interviews & Reviews
Lyudmyla Khersonska interviewed about her recently translated collection of poems, Today is a Different War.
"We all are a little bit mortal and eternal at the same time, regardless of what’s happening to us. Normally you have time for thinking, praying, repenting, reading, for talking to people. But when there is a war, you have no time to process anything."
Damara Atrigol Pratt reviews Susan Sontag’s On Women.
"For today’s world, still overrun with anti-intellectual limitations on women’s freedoms, imaginations, and becomings, Sontag’s hope must hold."
Steve Almond interviewed about his first novel, All the Secrets of the World.
"I spent so long on a soapbox wagging my finger at the world, I don’t want to do that anymore. I was delighted to tell a story through my love and effort to understand a bunch of people, all of whom are human beings. . ."
Ana Maria Spagna interviewed about her latest book, Pushed: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre.
"I think part of what I love about being a generalist nonfiction writer is I’m not an academic. I’m just a curious individual. People are so generous with their knowledge and admit their ignorance in a way that—I hate to say this—sometimes, in the academy, people won’t do." |
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Originals & Columns
"Dream People" by Kate Brody:
"I go to him, my dad. I realize that are we are wearing the same striped T-shirt. It is one of the few things I have left of his, to my disgrace."
Voices On Addiction: "Inheritance" by Christy Tending:
"When I quit drinking it was because I was tired of hurting myself with the contortions of managing drinking that I did not want to manage. Managing it was humiliating. I wanted it wild and loose."
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For our September 2023 - August 2024 selections (and possibly beyond!), we’ll focus on great new poetry collections AND hear from the indie publishers behind the books with our new Indie x Indie Poetry Book Club format!
Join by midnight August 15th, to receive our September Poetry Book Club pick The Kingdom of Surfaces by Sally Wen Mao and join our subsciber-only conversation with the author, her editor, Jeff Shotts at Graywolf Press, and Rumpus Poetry Editor, Brian Spears.
As a subscriber, we'll send you a copy of this book the first week of September and you'll also be invited to an exclusive online video discussion with the book's author + the author's editor + a Rumpus Editor and fellow book club members. Subscribers are encouraged to join in the chat with their questions before and during the conversations. These will take place on the Rumpus' Crowdcast channel and will remain available to subscribers for 1 month after they take place.
About September's featured indie press:Graywolf Press is a leading nonprofit publisher committed to the discovery and energetic publication of twenty-first century American and international literature. In recent years, Graywolf books have won numerous national and international awards—including the Booker and Booker International Prizes, the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Founded in 1974, the press is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
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| Letters in the Mail (from authors!) |
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Letters in the Mail from authors is a Rumpus subscription in which you receive an actual, postmarked letter from one of our favorite writers in your IRL mailbox twice a month. All letters are non-promotional, include a creative prompt, and have a return mailing address in case you'd like to write the author back!
Up next, author letters from . . .
August 1: Brian Turner author of Here, Bullet and two new poetry collections, The Wild Delight of Wild Things and The Goodbye World Poem, forthcoming this fall from Alice James Books (subscribe by July 31)
August 15: Sequoia Nagamatsu author of How High We Go in the Dark, a national bestseller and New York Times Editors' Choice, as well as the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (subscribe by August 14) |
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| Essays open reading period: We're open for original essays June 2-August 1. Read this thread from our Essays Editor, Robbie Maakestad to learn more about what we're looking for.
ENOUGH a Rumpus series devoted to creating a dedicated space for work by women and non-binary people who engage with rape culture, sexual assault, and domestic violence is now open for submissions until August 7th.
Save the dates! Reading periods opening soon for:
Original Comics (starting Aug. 1) and original Fiction (Aug. 15)
Parallel Practice, a new monthly column at The Rumpus, is edited by our very own Anna Held. We are open for Funny Women and Book Reviews submissions year-round.
(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.) |
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| Founded in 2009 in San Francisco, CA and now based in Asheville, NC with readers and editors all over the US and abroad, The Rumpusis one of the longest-running independent online literary and culture magazines. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers readers already know and love. Often, we are an emerging writer's first notable publication, which is something we’re really proud of. We believe that literature builds community—and if reading The Rumpus makes you feel more connected, please show your support! Our Membership and subscription programs along with tax-deductible donations made to The Rumpus through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, help keep us going and brings us closer to sustainability. |
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