Travel Is Everything
A review of Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, by Paul TherouxPhoto by Daniel CheongTravel is nothing. Travel is a bit of a hassle, a frisk at the airport, a few hundred or a few thousand dollars. For...
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I came from, not a small town, but basically not a very interesting place…So it was very important for me not to rebel but simply to get away, to go away.Travel writing doesn’t have to be lackluster....
View ArticleMastering the Short Story
…short stories [are] a venerable form, but it’s diabolically hard to master. There’s a lot of apprenticeship in writing stories. And sometimes a story can take such a long time to write — I mean,...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Elliot Ackerman
Elliot Ackerman did not write the book he was supposed to write. As a decorated officer who did five deployments with the United States Marine Corps, a veteran of the Second Battle of Fallujah and a...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Interview with Robert Glancy
Robert Glancy’s irreverent sense of humor takes center stage in his cutting and insightful sophomore novel, Please Do Not Disturb, a book many critics will surely take at face value as a critique of...
View ArticleWhat It Means to Be a Human: Talking with Maggie Downs
It all started with her mother’s subscription to National Geographic magazine when Maggie Downs was a child: Every month, when a new issue arrived, my mom and I sat at the kitchen table and let the...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #232: Mary Morris
With her groundbreaking 1988 memoir Nothing to Declare, Mary Morris created a new and singularly feminist genre of travel writing. Mary loves to travel alone, and her travel memoirs center on the solo...
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