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John Updike: Writers Reflect
The Rumpus asked writers to share their thoughts on the work and legacy of John Updike, who died this week at the age of 76. Click on each name to read their full remarks.Andrew Sean GreerRick MoodyTom...
View ArticleLucy Corin: A Poem I Love
Frank O’Hara’s “Morning”I can read, as I just did, stuffing my face with a disgusting greasy croissant, and I am still totally immersed in the world of this poem which resists weeping so desperately...
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Reading in the New Year
Rumpus Books asked some of our favorite writers what they will be reading as we leave the aughts behind and sally forth into a new decade. Here, then, is the second annual Reading in the New Year, from...
View ArticleMcSweeney’s Night of One Hundred Apocalypses
Quick! Think of some apocalypses! How many did you think of? For Lucy Corin, the answer is one hundred, and some others. That’s why she named her book One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses.To...
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The Rumpus Interview with Lucy Corin
There isn’t a single android in Lucy Corin’s new collection One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses, but the book got me thinking about robotics, specifically the concept of the “uncanny valley.”...
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SF Lit Crawl: “For We Have Fallen to Our Knees”
The Rumpus proudly presents:For WeHave Fallento Our KneesSF Lit Crawl Phase 3: Saturday October 19th, 8:30-9:30 p.m.The Make-Out Room3225 22nd StreetSan FranciscoReadings by: Lucy Corin, Saeed Jones,...
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One Hundred Apocalypses and Other Apocalypses by Lucy Corin
In contemporary parlance, apocalypse usually connotes final endings and violence. The apocalyptic worlds of our imagination run amok with great calamities: Earth-coating nuclear blasts, emerging...
View ArticleThe Rumpus At SF Lit Crawl!
Tomorrow Night!The Rumpus proudly presents: For We Have Fallen to Our Knees!The Rumpus is excited to participate in the San Francisco Lit Crawl! Come see readings by: Lucy Corin, Saeed Jones, Mac...
View ArticleTin House interviews Lucy Corin
Lucy Corin is on a roll. Her book, One Hundred Apocalypses And Other Apcoalypses is making the rounds and with 103 stories it has a long time to go before people are done talking about it. Check out...
View ArticleWeekly Rumpus Fiction: Lucy Corin
The next Weekly Rumpus features fiction from Lucy Corin! Here’s an excerpt:But the apocalypse is not the wobbling away. The wobbling away is life persisting. The apocalypse is him spinning, with the...
View ArticlePretend You’re at Our LitQuake Event with LitCast
LitCast, the podcast arm of San Francisco’s annual LitQuake festival, has a new episode up featuring your favorite literary website: the Rumpus!Recorded live at our last LitQuake event, the episode...
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The Rumpus Interview with Wendy C. Ortiz
Bruja, just published by CCM on October 31, is Wendy C. Ortiz’s third book. It comes on the heels of Hollywood Notebook (Writ Large Press, 2015), which followed her debut memoir, Excavation (Future...
View ArticleNext Letter in the Mail: Lucy Corin
Our next Letter in the Mail comes from Lucy Corin! Lucy writes to us about her badass childhood friend J and what happened when she went searching for on the Internet and social media. To make sure...
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Brain Soup and Making Things: A Conversation with Rita Bullwinkel
Rita Bullwinkel’s stories, which appear in her debut collection Belly Up (A Strange Object, May 2018), are that device an optometrist uses that shoots air into your eye. They’re potent and necessary,...
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What to Read When the World Is Ending
We are only five days away from the midterm elections. Five weeks ago, Christine Blasey Ford testified in front the Senate and the country to her certainty that Brett Kavanaugh had attempted to...
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Notable NYC: 3/9–3/15
Saturday 3/9: Karen Hueler, Andrea Rothman, and Erika Swyler join Trumpet Fiction for “Cosima Smiled: Women Scientists in Fiction.” KGB Bar, 7 p.m., free. Ser Serpas and Park McArthur join the Segue...
View ArticleNotable San Francisco: 10/30–11/5
Wednesday 10/30: Ian Duncan will be discussing Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution. University Press Books in Berkeley at 5 p.m. Hannu Rajaniemi, Meg Elison, and Annalee Newitz will read...
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