This week on The Rumpus and a THANK YOU to our Day 1 supporters! |
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In case you missed it, yesterday we launched a $10K fundraiser to finally, after over a decade, redesign our glitchy online magazine. In the first 24 hours, we received $2,647 from 65 donors, that's 26% of our goal! The first couple of days are especially crucial for a fundraising campaign and we need raise the remaining $7,378 by JUNE 14 in order to relaunch by this fall.
BIG APPRECIATION for our
Day 1 supporters:
Sam Ashworth
Anya Backlund
Jordan Bascom
Stephanie Behne
Lily Caraballo
Natasha Chiam
Tina Christopulos
Kathy Daneman
Roxanne Darling
Elizabeth Davis
Lou Dunham
Tessa Fontaine
Katharine Freeman
Nadejda Gerassimenko
Alison Granucci
Laura Green
Amy Wheeler Harwood
Mark Hendrickson |
Bruce Hughes
Emery Lade
Robert Maakestad
Lisa Mecham
Mandy Medley
Amy Monticello
Kirtan Nautiyal
Elizabeth Porter
Krista Puttler
Sarah Reed
Charley Rejsek
Sherry Rind
Sheila Rittenberg
Lauren Sharkey
Moshe Schulman
Tia Shearer
Jennifer Smith
Brian Spears
Ann Stoney
Michael Taeckens
Christy Tennery
Tomra Vecere
Renee Weitzner
Ginny Wiehardt
Linda Woolford
Michal Zechariah
Stefani Zellmer
Lisa Zolbrod
And the donors who gave anonymously! If you haven't given yet, please help The Rumpus NOW if you can.
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Interviews & Reviews
Max Porter, teenage boyhood (an interview).
"Various removals were vital (cause and effect boyhood trauma devices, for example) and various things appeared (music, hauntology, bullying, therapy, ketamine, dead animals) that raised the bar at sentence level."
Vartika Rastogi reviews Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X.
"Biography of X is an extravagantly subversive, expertly layered novel that employs a fictional biography to examine the fiction of identity, as well as the fictions that exist within our interpersonal relationships and circumscribe our experiences of love, grief, art, and abuse."
Emerson Whitney, the unknowable self (an interview).
"I wish I could say I wrote it myself, but I am a constellation of influences. One of the things that I find inspiring about a lot of contemporary writing is that people are really down for genre mixing and blending and hybridity and revealing what it is to have a mind. Writing, in so many ways, is just our thinking." |
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Originals & Columns
"Red Cedar" by Colleen Morrissey:
"A living tree is a dare. Jordan had a favorite, a western red cedar, that lay just a few minutes’ walk into the woods behind his house."
"Humans Don't Live Long Enough" written by Tiara Shelley and illustrated by Katie Nieland:
"We spend our short lives stuck in or shedding the layers of who we were told to be . . . "
Voices On Addiction: "Speaking Ill of the Dead" by Juliane Bergmann:
"My parents never speak of this incident again, but the hole remains in the wall, the siding leaned up against it. We are not a family that fixes things." |
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Every month subscribers receive a book in the mail handpicked by The Rumpus staff.Now through midnight on June 15, you can sign up for our June Poetry Book Club pick The Diaspora Sonnets by Oliver de la Paz.
As a subscriber, you'll also be invited to an exclusive online video discussion with the book's author + a Rumpus Editor. Subscribers are encouraged to join in the chat with their questions before and during the conversations. These will take place on the Rumpus' Crowdcast channel and will remain available to subscribers for 1 month after they take place.
**Due to consistently low numbers, we've ended our prose Book Club program. Our last pick was for June 2023. Those subscribers were contacted in advance, will receive their last book, and are invited to join the June author conversation as usual. All their recurring payments were discontinued. If you want to see these sorts of programs continue, they are a LOT of work, so we need readers to join and tell their friends!*
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Letters in the Mail (from authors!) |
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 | Letters in the Mail from authors is a Rumpus subscription in which you receive an actual, postmarked letter from one of our favorite writers in your IRL mailbox twice a month. All letters are non-promotional, include a creative prompt, and have a return mailing address in case you'd like to write the author back! Up next, author letters from . . .
June 15: Paul Hlava Ceballos
July 1: Abigail Thomas and Beth Kephart
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Calls for Submissions
Kitchen Table Literary Arts x The Rumpus
Voices on Addiction:
Open May 1st - June 30th.
Parallel Practice, a new monthly column at The Rumpus, is edited by our very own Anna Held.
We are open for Funny Women and Book Reviews submissions year-round.
(Reminder, annual Rumpus Members can submit their work in any genre all year long.) |
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Thank you to this week's sponsor Bloomsbury |
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We're trying something new with half or full month ad partners for the site and/or our weekly e-newsletter in the hopes of having a more solid way of supporting the work we do at The Rumpus. This also allows us to have more say in who we work with vs. automated ads feeding through our site.
If you're interested in sharing the work you do as a publisher, literary organization, author, or other member of the literary community, please reach out to Monica at ads@therumpus.net.
*If you're a Rumpus Member, editor, or volunteer reader, email hello@therumpus.net your upcoming literary-related events or classes and we'll do our best to include them in an upcoming free weekly newsletter. We appreciate you supporting the work WE do and would like to pay it forward. |
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Reader Support Keeps The Rumpus Going! |
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| Founded in 2009 in San Francisco, CA and now based in Asheville, NC with readers and editors all over the US and abroad, The Rumpusis one of the longest-running independent online literary and culture magazines. Our mostly volunteer-run magazine strives to be a platform for risk-taking voices and writing that might not find a home elsewhere. We lift up new voices alongside those of more established writers readers already know and love. Often, we are an emerging writer's first notable publication, which is something we’re really proud of. We believe that literature builds community—and if reading The Rumpus makes you feel more connected, please show your support! Our Membership and subscription programs along with tax-deductible donations made to The Rumpus through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas, help keep us going and brings us closer to sustainability. |
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