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The Mystery Tugs: Talking with Joel Mowdy
Joel Mowdy’s debut short story collection, Floyd Harbor, is a challenging book. It deep dives into 1990s era poverty, drug use, and the fight against entropy in Mastic Beach, New York. Mowdy peoples...
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We Are More: Shattering the Ethnic Monolith Myth in The Gimmicks
“Jart. The shattering—that was what Avo’s parents used to call the genocide, and it made sense to him that another shattering was what it would take for the world to acknowledge it, too.” In Chris...
View ArticleWould You Rather Babysit Cathy Ames or Christine Hargensen?
What do Yukio Mishima, Tana French, Shirley Jackson, and John Steinbeck have in common? They’re the masterminds behind a couple of the most evil fictional youngsters of all time, according to a list...
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The Rumpus Interview with Sean Wilsey
Sean Wilsey, San Francisco’s bad boy made good and author of a memoir of childhood delinquency, Oh The Glory of It All, is back with a collection of essays titled More Curious, which catalog his...
View ArticleMapping Literary Road Trips
What is more American than the road trip? Steven Melendez has created an astonishingly detailed interactive map of the beloved institution as documented in twelve works of American literature. The...
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The Rumpus Review of The Big Short
January of 2012, a series of mailed notices from Bank of America revealed to my roommates and me that our landlord had not made a single payment on his mortgage since he’d bought the house, many years...
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Defeat
For a short time the summer before my year senior year in college, I had nowhere to go but Houston. So I moved back in with my mother. The last place I wanted to be was in my old neighborhood of...
View ArticleThe Popular Vote
The Library of Congress recently polled American citizens to find out what books had the most profound effect on them. Among the 17,000-plus survey respondents, popular answers were books like Frank...
View ArticleSo Woke, Steinbae
At Timeline, Matt Reimann finds a predecessor to the modern “woke apology” in John Steinbeck’s remarks on his novel Tortilla Flat: Steinbeck’s plea here so closely mirrors the structure of the modern...
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Messy and Complicated and Real: Talking with Laura Pritchett
In the 70s and 80s, as Colorado writer Laura Pritchett was growing up on the family ranch, that life was taking a shortcut to anachronism. The farm crisis of the 80s decimated the number of families...
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