Peter Orner’s Favorite Short Stories
I’ll say it: [“Idiots First”] is the most moving American story ever written. (Until I change my mind.)For online magazine Ozy, Rumpus columnist Peter Orner collects some of his very favorite short...
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Mexican Enough?
I picked up this book because it boasted one of the worst covers I’ve ever seen. The Collected Stories of Amado Muro is a slim hardcover published in 1979. There’s no publisher’s logo on the spine, but...
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A Language in Constant Rebellion: Talking with Aura Xilonen
Aura Xilonen, a native Mexican and current film student, wrote the novel Gringo Champion (Europa Editions) at only nineteen years old. It soon won Mexico’s Mauricio Achar/Random House Award, given to...
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What to Read When You Can’t Get Away—but Need To
Starting in mid-May, the Internet is aflame with summer reading lists that hail the books you can’t approach the beach without. There are thematic lists that you can accessorize against your summer...
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Dunya Mikhail
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with Dunya Mikhail about her latest collection In Her Feminine Sign (New Directions, July 2019), writing in multiple languages, tablets as poetry, and the stories of...
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The Rumpus Book Club Chat with Beth Alvarado
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Beth Alvarado about her new linked story collection, Jillian in the Borderlands (Black Lawrence Press, October 2020), how teaching influences her creative work, the...
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Where Else Can We Be This Free?: Talking with ire’ne lara silva
Austin-based poet and short story writer ire’ne lara silva was born in and grew up in the Rio Grande Valley. She is the author of four poetry collections, two chapbooks, and a short story collection,...
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