Rumpus Women, Volume I
Rumpus Women, Volume I--an anthology of powerhouse personal essays--is the first and most extraordinary book ever published by TheRumpus.net (on The Rumpus Paper Internets imprint).
Rumpus Women is not a collection by perfect women, but real women, whose experiences, tragedies, and reflections drive their art. Read the introduction to the book here.
The book is is for sale through The Rumpus Store and select independent booksellers.
Reviews and Other Press:
New Yorker’s Book Bench: Rumpus Women Breaking Out
The New York Times: The Rumpus at the Greenlight Bookstore
How to Make--and Remake--a Book on SheWrites.com
The Rumpus Book Club Interviews Rumpus Women
“…a bold, and stylistically varied compilation whose 20 contributors span a range of topics—religion, race, motherhood, hiking, writing—each in conversation with the rest. (‘Pussy Fever,’ Cheryl Strayed’s thoughts on why she wishes sex work were obsolete, is followed by ‘Locker 29,’ Antonia Crane’s gritty expose about auditioning for a New Orleans strip club.) This is a Rumpus production, so the authors tend to be hip and urbane, and many of them discuss sexuality that’s outside the norm. But no matter what they cover, these well-written pieces share a probing intelligence and raise more questions than they answer—the perfect antidote to the pat personal reflections in most collections with the word women in the title.”
Interview in Nylon magazine, January, 2010 (on newsstands now; online version here on p. 138)
Publishers Weekly: “The Rumpus Becomes a Book Publisher”
Jezebel.com: Rumpus Women, Vol I Is Now on Our Christmas List
HORN! REVIEWS: Rumpus Women, Volume I in comic form
Rumpus Women Readings (upcoming and history of):
Everywhere, 2/26/2011, 5-7pm, EST
Manhattan, 3/29/2011:
KGB Nonfiction Reading Series (time and contributors TBA)
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(PAST) Los Angeles 12/7/2010:
The SoHo House and Traveler’s Bookcase (Reviewed in The Huffington Post: “Women Writers: The Essay Gets Up Close and Personal,” by S.X. Rosenstock)
(PAST) San Francisco, 12/13/2010:
(PAST) Brooklyn, 12/14/10:
(December 14th, 2010, BookCourt bookstore, Rumpus Women Book Launch with Jami Attenberg, Elissa Bassist, Justine Blau, Nell Boeschenstein, Marie Myung-Ok Lee, Michelle Orange, and Diana Spechler--reviewed by Electric Literature, The Outlet)
(PAST) Brooklyn, 1/10/2010:
January 10th, 2011, 7:30pm, Greenlight Bookstore, 686 Fulton Street. With Jami Attenberg, Elissa Bassist, Justine Blau, Nell Boeschenstein, and Michelle Orange.
