Emerging Empathy
In The Chairs Are Where the People Go, Shelia Heti and Misha Glouberman explore all topics that Glouberman cares about, including feeling like a fraud, seeing John Zorn play Cobra, and asking a good...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Peter Aguero
I first met Peter Aguero in 2010 through The Moth, where I was an intern and he is something of a god. He hosts SLAMs—weekly events where you can put your name in a hat to tell a story onstage—in New...
View ArticleRumpus Original Fiction: As Soon as I Stop
This morning I discovered a mystery involving the swivel chair in my cubicle on the twenty-fifth floor of the spiral tower downtown. When I lifted my legs off the floor, the chair began to turn. I...
View ArticleDon’t Think Twice and the Power of Improvising through the Unknown
Sunday, January 10, 2016: sometime in the night, while the neighborhood was quiet, someone smashed a bunch of car windows, my driver’s side window included. They hit up dozens of cars across multiple...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Meg Pokrass
With the release of her ninth book, Spinning to Mars (Blue Light Press, 2021), highly prolific and widely acclaimed author Meg Pokrass proves she’s still on top of her game. Fueled by a signature blend...
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