Burning Brightly
Over at Narratively, Anthony Taille takes us on a walk through Pennsylvania mining town Centralia, after the fire that tore it apart.Related Posts:On PainThe Sunday Rumpus Essay: Friday Night Lies
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On Pain
1.There is pain in the Kentucky mountains, from which an ever-diminishing cache of coal is drawn. Factory work has dried up, but it left injuries—a break here, a crush there. Some people’s bodies throb...
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: The Diggins
I think about my family and wonder if there was a time when America was great, for them. The longer I ponder the question, I think that, for Native people, the time when America was great was before it...
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The Human Cost: Discussing Political Storytelling with Olivia Kate Cerrone
Olivia Kate Cerrone’s novella, The Hunger Saint, dives into child labor and immigration in post-World War II Italy. Told from the point of view of a young boy chained to the sulfur mines in Sicily, the...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #96: Donna Baier Stein
Colorado’s Baby Doe Tabor was a bad ass. Born in 1854, ‘Lizzie,’ as she was known, bucked social norms of her day. In an era when silver miners believed it bad luck to even speak to a woman before...
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It’s a Beautiful (Toxic) Life
I’m obsessed with a lump on my dog’s penis. Maybe obsessed isn’t the right word. Maybe I’m simply paying appropriate daily attention to the marble-sized growth that’s technically on Barney’s prepuce,...
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Reality Is Absurd: Talking with Ted O’Connell
Ted O’Connell’s first book, K: A Novel, follows Francis Kauffman, an English teacher in China who gets thrown in prison after being accused of inciting rebellious activity among some of his students....
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