Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Did you enjoy your weekend? Revisit it with a look at our weekend Rumpus features.
Didn’t enjoy your weekend? We have just the thing to cheer you up: weekend Rumpus features.
...morePosts Tagged: Aleksandar Hemon
The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Aleksandar Hemon
“I never thought of myself as an outsider…[Y]ou would have to give advantage to this space where you’re not, to think of it as sovereign because you’re not there.”
...moreNotable New York, This Week 4/26 – 5/2
This week in New York the sixth annual PEN World Voices Festival (PWVF) opens its week-long celebration of international writing with such notable literary figures as Sherman Alexie, Claire Messud, Yiyun Li, Salman Rushdie and Lewis Lapham among others (Full Schedule Here), Agriculture Reader holds a launch party, the Dead or Alive exhibition opens at the Museum of Arts and Design, Gossip perform, Stephen Colbert helps celebrate the 50th anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird and the Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) continues.
Gigantic Online Presents Work by Saša Stanišić
While the second print issue of Gigantic, a magazine of short prose and art, is only days away from its anticipated release, Gigantic has just published new and noteworthy work online.
There’s short fiction and poetry by Saša Stanišić (click here to read the recent Rumpus interview with Stanišić), including “Let’s Go Sleep Japan Soon,” about a couple who “have a soft spot for sleeping where famous people once slept.” Like fellow Bosnian-born writer Aleksandar Hemon, Stanišić emigrated from Bosnia during the Yugoslav Wars.
...moreThe Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Greetings, world. Blogging will be light today. Your humble Sunday editor is in Monterey celebrating the life of a friend who recently passed. But to keep you with stuff to look at until tomorrow, here’s a brief roundup of some of links from the book blogs from this past week.
Dan Brown may be invading the cover of your book, whether he has anything to do with what you’re reading or not.
Speaking of book covers, another reminder that authors have no control over these things.
...moreIs Your Novel Autobiographical?
Academics spend their careers studying how autobiographical novels are. Readers spend hours obsessing over it. But in a brief interview with The New Yorker’s Book Bench, Aleksandar Hemon may have answered the age old question about whether his novel is autobiographical in a way that just might answer this question for all writers forever.
...more