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The Rumpus Interview with Jamie Brickhouse

Propelled by sharp wit and fierce hilarity, Jamie Brickhouse’s Dangerous When Wet: A Memoir of Booze, Sex, and My Mother is a smart, deftly crafted memoir that chronicles his intimate, near-fatal...

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Reimagining The Tempest

How to create a credible contemporary novel from a work written four centuries ago for the stage? In a New York Times Book Review, author Emily St. John Mandel reviews Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed, a...

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The Rumpus Interview with Abraham Burickson

Odyssey Works is a San Francisco-based theater company (though any prolonged investigation of their project calls into question taxonomic designation, and so, already, I am failing to describe them...

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The Dark Lady

Ava brought bubbles just when I needed them: champagne smiles, frothy laughter, and a lathering of thoughts as she stroked the arm of our red velvet settee. “William,” she said to my husband one early...

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The Rumpus Interview with Kea Wilson

Kea Wilson’s phenomenal debut novel, We Eat Our Own, has its roots in a film that came out decades ago. In the late 1970s Italian film director Ruggero Deodato filmed Cannibal Holocaust on location in...

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The Rumpus Mini Interview Project #75: Deborah Kampmeier

I met Deborah Kampmeier at a workshop in November. We were two weeks post-election; the room was raw with emotion, and electric with conversations about resistance. This tall, badass woman dressed in...

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Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from Benjamin Taylor’s The Hue and Cry at Our...

In his new memoir, The Hue and Cry at Our House: A Year Remembered, Benjamin Taylor discusses what it’s like to grow up as a young, homosexual JFK Democrat in Texas in 1964. The exclusive excerpt below...

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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Malcolm Tariq

The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Malcolm Tariq about his poetry collection Heed the Hollow (Graywolf Press, November 2019), Bible jokes, the American South, and finding food far from home. This...

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Everything Is Happening All of the Time: Talking with Sven Ratzke

Cabaret superstar Sven Ratzke has performed all around the world, including Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble in Berlin, the Sydney Opera House, and Arts...

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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #220: Jennifer Steil

In Jennifer Steil’s new novel, Exile Music, a Jewish girl and her musician parents flee Nazi-occupied Austria for La Paz, Bolivia, where they must remake their lives from scratch. Based on a...

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