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Lauren Eggert-Crowe: The Last Book of Poetry I Loved, L.A. Liminal
The week I decided to move to Los Angeles, I read a book of poetry by a woman who had lived there for four years, hated it, left it for New York, and couldn’t stop writing poems about it.It seemed...
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The Rumpus Interview with Kate Durbin
One evening in the beginning of 2012, as I was wandering around my Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park, I stumbled into a salon reception at a hipster clothing boutique called The Dog Show. That’s...
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The Rumpus Interview with Mark O’Connell
When confronted with a bottomless serving of fat or sugar, lab rats will stuff themselves sick. The theory goes that humans share the same mammalian evolutionary drive to gorge on as much...
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Matthew Specktor
This is the city. Los Angeles, California. Mythologized by so many authors hoping to reveal the nature of the place. But how do you write a city? Especially one that has been retooled, varnished,...
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Albums of Our Lives: Moxy Früvous’s Bargainville
I was twenty when Moxy Früvous’s music found its way to my dorm computer through the copious file sharing we all participated in after the death of Napster. I had just completed the tenth issue of my...
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The Rumpus Interview with Peter Orner
A men’s prison organizes a cutthroat hockey game. A mass murderer writes a letter from his jail cell. A boy destroys the kite his failing father built, out of spite. Two boys play in the water under...
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The Rumpus Interview with Francesca Lia Block
Talk to any woman my age, and you’ll likely hear her Francesca Lia Block origin story.We discovered her at fifteen, seventeen, at twelve years old when our older cousin lent us her well-thumbed copy of...
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