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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Come catch up! Highlights from this week in Rumpus books are below the fold.Outside of Society — A review of Just Kids, Patti Smith’s memoir of her friendship with Robert Maplethorpe.The Rumpus...
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Before and After
Sitting on the edge of the English language, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s new collection Apricot Jam and Other Stories pushes us into twentieth century Russia.There is a challenge inherent in reading...
View ArticleResurrecting a Soviet Satire
The New York Times takes a look at Dying For It, a new adaption of The Suicide, a 1928 satirical play written (but never performed) under Stalinism.Related Posts:A Comic History of RomeMy Saga, Part...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tinfoil Astronaut
My mother made me an astronaut helmet out of tinfoil, and cardboard, and a leftover pipe from when she fixed the leaky toilet. I got a supermarket brand “NASA Shuttle and Launch Pad Play Set” that...
View ArticleWeekend Rumpus Roundup
First, in the Saturday Essay, Kaitlin Barker Davis lays bare the grief, and examines the imperfect, often bizarre language, that accompanies a “missed miscarriage.” And Brandon Hicks shares irreverent...
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Tracing the Wolf
The first tattooed person I ever knew was Misha, my mom’s first boyfriend in the US. She didn’t call him that yet, but I knew that that’s what he’d become as soon as he stepped into our studio...
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