Everyone probably already knows the Biggest News Around The Rumpus, but in case you’ve been in a remote rain forest with no internet access for the past two days, read about Oprah’s book club revival, with our own Cheryl Strayed’s Wild as her first selection. Congrats, Cheryl!
What type of annoying writer are you?
The Rumpus Book Club’s June darling, Elizabeth Crane, gets some love from Carolyn Kellogg.
A shitty thing happened in Chicago, followed by a really cool thing. All-around fab couple, Jon and Amelia Fullmer–he of the excellent indie bookstore, The Book Cellar–lost everything in a fire on the brink of having their first child. Chicago’s lit community has rallied and raised over 10K. Seriously, these folks usually balk if the beer isn’t free–but when it counts, they’ve got your back. Want to help the Fulmers too?
You know you want to. Submit to The Collagist chapbook contest.
The Nation tells us how Germany keeps Amazon at bay and literary culture alive.
Named one of the “strongest emerging talents in literary fiction and poetry” by HuffPo, Sybil Baker does the TNB Self-Interview.
I am not reading ANY of the books on The Million’s Top Ten. Should I be worried?
With recent features on indie darlings Emily St. John Mandel, Meg Pokrass and Elizabeth Searle, bestselling author Caroline Leavitt of Leavittville has her finger on a cool pulse.
I’m a longtime fan of Josh Mohr’s. I was publishing him before he had his first book out, when apparently he was about eight years old. Last fall, he got food poisoning while staying in my basement, which only made me like him more. Now it turns out (see the Sunday Rumpus Interview with Michelle Haimoff) that he’s an insomniac too.
Rumpus editor Roxane Gay is a Top 5 pick at Longreads for her harrowing story “Break All the Way Down.”
Next Sunday, I’m interviewing my buddy Patrick Somerville, whom I recently embarrassed on Facebook by calling a genius. If you haven’t heard about his novel, This Bright River, it’s not to be missed. Check it out next week.
