The Rumpus Interview with Don Waters
“That gorgeous cholla cactus outside the window also has horribly sharp spines. The desert is an incredibly violent environment. Plants and animals had to get mean as hell in order to survive.”Don...
View ArticleFictional Pointillism
Tupelo Hassman’s debut Girlchild is an emotionally rich and complex picture of a smart girl brutalized and circumscribed by circumstances.“My name is Rory Dawn Hendrix, feebleminded daughter of a...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Tupelo Hassman
Girlchild, Tupelo Hassman’s stunning debut novel, follows Rory Dawn Hendrix through a rough childhood in the Calle.“Just north of Reno and just south of nowhere is a town full of trailers and the front...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Christian Kiefer
Christian Kiefer is a poet, musician, and author of the novels The Infinite Tides and, most recently, The Animals. The story of The Animals interweaves the lives of two boyhood friends, who, as young...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Sean Bernard
There is so much going on in Sean Bernard’s debut novel Studies in the Hereafter that it is hard to know exactly how to introduce it. At its heart are Tetty, a Basque-American beauty, and Carmelo, an...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Istanbul is suffering from a shortage of bookstores.Barnes & Noble has ousted CEO Ronald Boire.A crane collapsed in front of a Reno bookstore. No people—or books—were injured.2016 has thus far been...
View ArticleWho Run the World?
On Saturday, January 21, over a half a million women (and men—but let’s be clear that it was women who planned and executed this) came together in Washington, DC, and in sister demonstrations across...
View ArticleSurvival Soup
It’s hard to pick an origin point to the story you are living, so I’ll officially clock it at when the stay-at-home order began. The governor of Oregon declared a state of emergency six days ago. Of...
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