“I really believe that most writers in America have taken on this idea that we’re never going to get paid–and so we accept so little for what we do, when what we do is so valuable. And it’s wanted.” –Ali Liebegott

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This week, Rumpus books reviewed Terry Castle’s book of essays, interviewed Elaine Showalter, wrote about Nabokov, and talked about grief and Hamlet. Come see what you missed.  …more

In New York this week Richard Price is interviewed by Philip Gourevitch, David Byrne presents Creation in Reverse, Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Showalter chat over brunch, Tao Lin (who will also be reading at The Rumpus’s first anniversary party) and CAConrad read at The Animal Farm Reading Series, Dave Eggers at the Strand, Women of Antifolk, and the Bruce High Quality Foundation present a re-staging of the first lecture ever dedicated to the art of magic.

MONDAY 1/11: Richard Price, author of Lush Life and Clockers, and writer for The Wire, who has been called “king of American urban fiction,” will be interviewed by The Paris Review’s Philip Gourevitch. Barnes & Noble. 150 E. 86th St. Free. 7:00pm. …more

In A Jury of Her Peers, Elaine Showalter chronicles the history of female American writers, from captivity narratives to Annie Proulx. Salon calls her “the woman for the job” due to her 1978 book A Literature of Their Own: British Woman Novelists from Bronte to Lessing. One of the founders of feminist literary criticism, Showalter “brings a perspective to changing literary culture that makes criticism seem not only understandable but also healthy and invigorating,” according to the LA Times. (Passionate Minds, a title from 2000, also catalogs female writers “to reckon with.”)