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The Rumpus Interview With Michelle Orange
We sat on my bed, our backs against the wall, talking about her essay collection, This Is Running For Your Life.1. Setting Up The Interview, The Part About UsThe Rumpus: So… um… like what I’ll do is...
View ArticleThe Saddest Story I’ve Ever Read
I was heading home from my girlfriend’s house and it was taking a while. She lived well south of San Francisco and it was a weekend so the trains weren’t running. Instead you had to go to the station...
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Bombing the Bookclub
We had a number of people quit The Rumpus Book Club today because I wrote in a Daily Rumpus email that Israel should stop bombing Gaza. One person wrote that I was “ignorant of the history.” But I’m...
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An Oral History of Myself #15: Neil Elliott
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with. Because I left home at thirteen and spent four years in group homes, my social network was significantly wider than most people of that age. What’s...
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Dear McSweeney’s: Two Letters from Stephen Elliott
Below we’ve reprinted two letters written by Rumpus Founder and Editor-in-Chief Stephen Elliott. The first appeared in McSweeney’s Issue 12, published in November 2003, and the second appeared on...
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The Great Film Festival Swindle
“If you’re in the con game and you don’t know who the mark is… you’re the mark.” —David Mamet“Never pay an entry fee. If they won’t give you a waiver they aren’t interested in the film.” —Major film...
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An Oral History of Myself #13: Mato
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with. Because I left home at thirteen and spent four years in group homes, my social network was significantly wider than most people of that age. What’s...
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An Oral History of Myself #14: Judy
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with. Because I left home at thirteen and spent four years in group homes, my social network was significantly wider than most people of that age. What’s...
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My Little Brother Ruined My Life
“Are you a masochist?” It’s the first thing Bosco asks me. He’s fourteen years old now, almost my height, 5′ 8″, creamy white skin, and a small, German nose from my stepmother’s side of the family....
View ArticleMistress
Mistress, the second in a series of short movies based on the novel Happy Baby, directed by Stephen Elliott. These shorts are explorations of characters that appear in the book but these scenes are not...
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