2+ day, 6+ hour ago  (386+ words) " 2026, The Rumpus. Kelly Yang is a New York Times bestselling author of over 15 books for children and teens." The Take is her first novel for adults. Her books have earned multiple awards, including the Asian Pacific American Award for Literature,…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago  (1034+ words) Hard Times follows Boyd's debut, The Weight (Simon & Schuster, 2023), about a young Black musician navigating a predominantly white Portland, Oregon'where he once lived. Today, Boyd calls Brooklyn, New York home." It was a joy to speak with him for the…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (185+ words) B. Luke Wilson is a writer and editor from Central Virginia. His fiction and poetry can be found in ONLY POEMS, Blue Earth Review, Moon City Review, LIT Magazine, HAD, and elsewhere. Winner of the Andrew James Purdy Prize for Short…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (202+ words) Beth Ann Fennelly's The Irish Goodbye is a collection of micro-memoirs exploring family, grief, and growth with wit and warmth. Fennelly previously explored the genre, combining both flash nonfiction and short essays, in Heating & Cooling (W. W. Norton & Company, 2018), which positioned her…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (406+ words) Natalie Louise Tombasco is a poet from Staten Island, NY. She is an Editor of Divedapper Poetry and an Assistant Teaching Professor of English at the University of Tampa. She holds an MFA from Butler University and a Ph D…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (658+ words) Yes, of course, it was that ethereal. I was delighted to exchange questions and responses with Bell over email. The Rumpus: Let's start with the title: Might Could'and a good handful of titles in this collection'are often short, clipped, and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1162+ words) Like silence, violence is not quantifiable. Put the indefinite article "a" in front of it and the monolithic world of violence shutters into a reflective surface of infinite, biodiverse fragments. What counts as violence?...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (912+ words) Nemens and I chatted over a phone call about writing in midlife, the complexity and richness of friendships with women, and the timeliness of womanhood." The Rumpus: Why name the novel Clutch and how does the book cover of Wayne…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1078+ words) The Rumpus Obliteration and Authorship: On Hamid Ismailov's "We Computers" Much of poetry is defined by its ambiguity, but the ghazal form is especially so. The ghazal originated in 7th century Arabic poetry, and is encountered across Western, Southern, and Central…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (995+ words) We spoke on Zoom'Miles called in from a shack he built out of old pallet boards and filled with books (only nonfiction; the fiction is in the house)'about the book, the ecological struggles that inspired it, how it connects…...