Always a Good Day to Celebrate Prince
Because it’s always a good idea to read about Prince, and to mark the six-month anniversary of the icon’s passing, okayplayer. published a master list of memories both intimate and hilarious. They’ve...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: The Butch and the Bathroom
My beloved and I have a routine, worked out over thirty years, a road show really, or a vaudeville act, each venue a version of the venue before, a wall-long mirror, a sea of side-eyed, not-looking...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: My Name Is Jean-Pierre and I Am Still an End Table
DAY 1 I am still an end table. I know that I had been operating under the assumption that the spell would break as soon as I left the castle, and that assumption was incorrect. Most of my brain power...
View ArticleSwinging Modern Sounds #92: Perfection
The listing impulse in music criticism is, well, hard to like. Nick Hornby, author of High Fidelity, ruined it, perhaps, at a time when it was going to be ruined anyway by reason of overuse. The...
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Spotlight: “I Met Prince Once”
I didn’t have the pleasure of growing up on Purple Rain. Once, as a kid, when driving by a billboard with a Corvette and the line “Baby, you’re much too fast,” I had to ask my dad to explain it. For...
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An East African Girl and Her White Troubadours
I am black, an East African immigrant daughter, a queer girl who loves music. Most often, I have loved rock music. My teens and twenties were outlined by indie folk, folk rock, pop rock, and baroque...
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We’re All Fighting: A Conversation with Saeed Jones
In the midst of America’s identity reflecting itself through politics and pop culture, Saeed Jones’s new memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives, illustrates an experience of American life that is rarely...
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This Is Joy: A Conversation with Gabrielle Civil
When Gabrielle Civil enters a room, someone might start crawling on the table. At least, this is what happened when she spoke with a class I was teaching one semester, via Skype, after asking us to...
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To Make Some Beauty: Talking with brian g. gilmore
The first thing to know about the poet brian g. gilmore is this: he prefers the lowercase. brian g. gilmore. But people don’t always get it right. Can you blame them? This is a guy (the middle initial...
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Disclosing Disability and Finding Freedom: Talking with James Tate Hill
Many writers know James Tate Hill as the fantastic fiction editor of Monkeybicycle. He’s a wonderful supporter of new writers who also relishes the nuances of punctuation. When we worked together in...
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