Girl Power: Quan Barry’s We Ride Upon Sticks
In Quan Barry’s deliciously irreverent We Ride Upon Sticks, which turns every Brat Pack-era phallocentric trope on its head, the 1989 Danvers High School field hockey team parties like it’s 1699. Or...
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FUNNY WOMEN: How to Write the Perfect Fantasy Novel
Could you be the next to write the perfect novel that’s full of elves, magic, and swashbuckling danger? Consider this manual your sword in the stone, your magical amulet, your sign from the Old Gods...
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Life Gets in the Way: Talking with Emily Hashimoto
The cover of Emily Hashimoto’s debut novel, A World Between, features loops of different shapes, sizes, and colors that overlap and intersect. It’s a metaphor for women and their relationships with...
View ArticleHell Is a Young Man: Fraternity by Benjamin Nugent
At the college I attended, fraternities weren’t formally recognized by the administration. Without frat houses—the ramshackle, portico-embellished kind Animal House made famous—the boys had to display...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Sayantani Dasgupta
Of the many books being published during the pandemic that take a joyous wickedness in celebrating unique women, Sayantani Dasgupta’s forthcoming collection, Women Who Misbehave, holds a very high...
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The Desire for a Pain-Free Existence: Talking with Karen Tucker
Irene, the protagonist of Karen Tucker’s debut novel Bewilderness, narrates with a distinct brand of raconteur’s energetic storytelling that will immediately put readers at ease. Set in the fictional...
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Subverting the Wild West: A Conversation with Anna North
“In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. Like a lot of things, it didn’t happen all at once.” So begins Outlawed, Anna North’s latest novel. Set in an alternative Old West, the novel follows...
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The Dangerous Myth of the “Perfect Victim”: A Conversation with Jonathan...
Do you know which book was first described as “gripping”? Neither do I. But if someone were to ask me for a gripping book recommendation right now, without missing a beat I would reply: Yes, Daddy by...
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We Are More: Shattering the Ethnic Monolith Myth in The Gimmicks
“Jart. The shattering—that was what Avo’s parents used to call the genocide, and it made sense to him that another shattering was what it would take for the world to acknowledge it, too.” In Chris...
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Fighting the Weightiness of Metaphors: A Conversation with M. Leona Godin
So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from hence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things...
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