A Yelp, of Sorts
The Morning Review is doing a series of restaurant reviews by writers which isn’t exactly a series of restaurant reviews. This is exactly the criteria: “1) it is a restaurant review; 2) it is not a...
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FUNNY WOMEN #128: At This Fondue Restaurant, the Word Is “Romance”
Welcome to the Steaming Crock, where we empower you to transform raw chunks of meat into cooked chunks of meat! Here, the lighting is dim and the word is “Romance.”I will now turn on the burners in the...
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Clueless
To say I was clueless indicates that a clue even existed. To be fair, we all were. It seemed like a good idea at the time, move to Brooklyn in March, help open a restaurant in May, invest some money in...
View ArticleVoices of Addiction #1: Baby’s Home
My baby wants to come home… home. She’s an adult now, in her twenties, and she’s been on the streets again for most of the last year. I’ve seen her twice since last April, both brief visits—one with us...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Mandarin Imperial
It was the summer before I left for college, and Aunt Minda was cutting ties with us. She called me to her office where she uncapped a metal tea canister, drew a small, tight square of paper from...
View ArticleThe Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #32: Rebecca Steinitz in Conversation with...
My husband, Sam Putnam, is the chef of a popular new restaurant, which I’m not going to name because it’s already gotten plenty of publicity.I wanted to interview him because I haven’t seen him much...
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The Rumpus Interview with Stephanie Danler
Sweetbitter chronicles a year in the life of Tess, a fresh arrival to New York City in the summer of 2006. She lands a job as a back waiter at a prestigious restaurant in Union Square and comes to...
View ArticleHaving Fall Fun This October
As ever, we’ve a stimulating shortlist to offset the arrival of the cold autumn weather: look no further for the latest in art, film, theatre and restaurant openings.No need to be depressed thinking...
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Those Who Serve
All my life I’d been training to work behind the counter in my Brooklyn coffee shop.Right out of college, my boyfriend and I lived in Hartford, CT, down the street from the Mark Twain House. He...
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The Rumpus interview with Jeremy P. Bushnell
Jeremy P. Bushnell’s debut novel, The Weirdness, explores what happens when the devil, over a cup of fair-trade coffee, offers an aspiring fiction writer the chance to become famous. His recently...
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Writing to Cope: Talking with Yaffa S. Santos
From oxtails and yuca, to bitter orange and cinnamon, home cook and author Yaffa S. Santos understands that the right ingredients, when prepared with care, become a force that unites and grounds...
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Rumpus Original Fiction: Poor People Disappear
This is the third day, and there are more empty seats. The spread of sickness is to be expected at the beginning of every quarter. Children, after all, are the ultimate carriers of germs. They touch...
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