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An Inside Passage
Kurt Caswell’s award-winning essays channel Phillip Lopate and David Foster Wallace, while exploring the plight of a “mountain man” stuck in a paved-over world.Kurt Caswell wants you to take a walk...
View ArticleTake a Hike, or “Thoreau Was a Neuroscientist”
Stop reading this and go outside and take a walk somewhere nature-like. Right now.Okay, did you go? Good. Now you might actually pay attention to me. My dad’s in town, and after I told him about my...
View ArticleWant to Write? Go for a Walk
A recent piece at the New Yorker explores the relationship between walking and creative thinking, diving into the scientific reasons why this connection exists. The article also notes the many writers...
View ArticleWalking Boosts Creativity
The next time you feel stuck with writer’s block, try taking a walk. A Stanford study has shown that walking increases creativity over simply sitting, even when walking indoors on a treadmill.Related...
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The Sunday Rumpus Interview: David Ulin
“How does a city obliterate, or ignore, its past?” David L. Ulin asks in his latest book, Sidewalking: Coming to Terms with Los Angeles, published this month by University of California Press. For...
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The Rumpus Interview with Cole Swensen
Cole Swensen is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, most recently, Gravesend and Landscapes on a Train, as well as a chapbook, Walk. Her work has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the New American...
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The Middle Season
It was a glorious Indian Summer day. Red and yellow leaves twirled down from maple trees along the street. I enjoyed their leisurely descent as I took my morning walk. I felt their lazy rhythm in my...
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The Storming Bohemian Punks the Muse #30: Walk On
This Tuesday was, by no means, a good news day. The night before was the tragedy in Manchester, England, at which a suicide bomber killed children at a pop concert. But, sad as it is, that is not the...
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Digging for Characters: A Conversation with Sonya Chung
Sonya Chung is the author of the novels Long for This World and, most recently, The Loved Ones. She is a staff writer for the The Millions and the founding editor of Bloom. Chung is also a recipient of...
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