(Evan Karp) For a show that came together last-minute, this was a goddamn doozy. AOL purchased Burning Man. We went through a list of 370+…
(Evan Karp) Don’t take it for granted. The Rumpus loves you from the start. It’s not just a theme. Monday, August 8 11 was an…
(Charles Kruger) Have you heard of Sleepwalkers Theatre Company? If you haven’t, I think you will. This little engine that could of a company has produced…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) It’s official. San Francisco is a literary destination. But you knew that, that’s why you moved here. Seems like you can’t throw a…
(Nicole McFeely) In this January 2011 article, Why There Are Words won Litseen’s first (and only) award for Classiest Reading Series. For those of you…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) Before I publicly criticize a New York Times best seller, a cult icon, a writer whose words I admire, let me just say…
(Nicole McFeely) Many of us have wondered what the hell they’re thinking. Filling the rooftop rows of sightseeing buses with their sun hats and disposable…
(Charles Kruger) Here’s a little secret: Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott, perennially childlike Peter Pan, outre sexual adventurer and provocateur, former sex worker, serial confessionalist, one…
(Evan Karp) I contract. I dilate. “Push! Push!” I wax. I wane. “Push! You can do it!” … “Congratulations! It’s a nonprofit organization.” At some…
(Evan Karp) We watched ourselves say things into a video camera we wouldn’t always admit to one another, projected onto a screen in the same…
Sat Feb 12 11, Capitola (Rick Kleffel) “Esmerelda is in an underground extreme food training ground compound in Marin …” —Matt Stewart “This will not…
Thurs Jan 13 11, Studio 333 (Evan Karp) This past week Why There Are Words celebrated its first anniversary by inviting some of its inaugural…
