What to Read When You Want to Celebrate Black History
It’s Black History Month, and while The Rumpus celebrates writing by black artists year-round, we think it is especially important to share a list of work written exclusively by black writers this...
View ArticleNotable Online: 4/4–4/10
Sunday 4/4: Leslie Contreras Schwartz, Spencer Reece, Brad Richard, Grace Lau, Jennifer Franklin, and Matthew Lippman join guest host Kathleen Ossip for the Mercy Street Readings. Zoom, 7 p.m. EDT,...
View ArticleA Higher Art
In his By the Book interview at the New York Times, Colson Whitehead claims he doesn’t know the name of his all-time favorite novelist: …because they never wrote anything. They had no inkling they had...
View ArticleThis Week in Short Fiction
Story|Houston published a beautiful story this week in their Fall 2014 issue, all of which centers around the theme of family, functional or otherwise. “Termites” tells the story of Tamara, aka Tam or...
View ArticleVISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Desiree Cooper
“The invisibility of writers of color is in fact a willed blindness. But we exist.” With these words, three Los Angeles–based publishers launched #LitinColor to draw attention to overlooked voices. And...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Abigail Ulman
I am so tired of hearing fiction compared to HBO’s Girls. First of all, it’s a television show—are there seriously no books you can think of to compare it to? Second of all, it seems the publisher...
View ArticleVISIBLE: Women Writers of Color: Renee Simms
I met Renee Simms in 2015 in Taos, New Mexico, at the summer retreat for the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction where we are both fellows. I introduced myself to Renee, bringing greetings...
View ArticleThrown Off Balance: Talking with Malinda McCollum
In Malinda McCollum’s debut story collection, The Surprising Place (winner of the 2017 Juniper Prize for Fiction), readers meet striking, indelibly drawn characters that habitually walk a thin line...
View ArticleWhat to Read When You’re a PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize Winner
The PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers recognizes twelve emerging fiction writers each year for their debut short story published in a literary magazine or cultural website last...
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