Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Caroline Smith writes about parenthood and television in the Saturday Essay. The wildly popular AMC drama Mad Men provides a thematic frame for Smith’s own foray into marriage and motherhood. She even...
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Carol
In an early scene of Carol, lonely department store clerk Therese Belivet (Rooney Mara) begins her shift in the quiet darkness of a store soon mobbed by shoppers. The decorations are chintzy but warm:...
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Feeding Your Head: The History of LARB
Hungry intellectuals are flocking to the Los Angeles Review of Books. Here is the humble story of how LARB came into being in April of 2011. Reader Matthew Weiner (of Mad Men fame) says:It speaks to...
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Market Researching My Desire
The black lace of elastic around my thigh and the silk of the stockings opaque and dark against my white leg, framed me in a Mad Men kind of desire. I rode a top of him, a master jockey, used to...
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Good Girls Revolt and Female-Focused Sex on TV
Spoiler Alert: this article contains spoilers for the full season of Good Girls Revolt. In the opening scenes of Good Girls Revolt, researcher Patti Robinson (Genevieve Angelson) and reporter Doug...
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Digging for Characters: A Conversation with Sonya Chung
Sonya Chung is the author of the novels Long for This World and, most recently, The Loved Ones. She is a staff writer for the The Millions and the founding editor of Bloom. Chung is also a recipient of...
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A Funny Inevitability: In Conversation with Siel Ju
Siel Ju’s seductive debut novel-in-stories, Cake Time, reads at first like a memoir, capturing painfully awkward moments in modern dating, like the feigned indifference of asking a partner if they have...
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Wisdom Is a Double-Edged Sword: Talking with Jay Baron Nicorvo
I have to admit that when The Rumpus asked me if I wanted to interview Jay Baron Nicorvo about his debut novel The Standard Grand (St. Martin’s Press), I thought the synopsis sounded a bit wild: a...
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Moving Toward Answers: A Conversation with Stephen Mills
I like to imagine meeting Stephen Mills in Florida in 2012: he and his partner Dustin driving north to their new home in New York City, my partner Angie and me driving south to our new home in Miami....
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #134: Elisabeth Cohen
Elisabeth Cohen’s debut novel, The Glitch, does a marvelous job of questioning what women have to gain from the effort to “lean in.” This story is Shelley Stone’s, the CEO of Conch, a hot wearables...
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