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The Rise and Fall of Alt Lit
The Alt Lit community brought together a disparate group of writers and poets from the sorts of backgrounds often ignored by mainstream literary fiction, leveraging the Internet and building a loyal and dedicated following. Then this fall, allegations of a…
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Lit Clicks and Small Bubbles (and Long, Zany Titles)
Did Vonnegut call it when he expressed his concerns about literature “disappearing up its own [asterisks]”? To all the postmodern articles on why postmodern articles don’t get looked at, to all the callow insecurity, the boggy, invasive, self-reflexivity, the semantic,…
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Distancing Author and Narrator
The line between fiction and non-fiction has always been blurry, but an author’s choice of genre—be it novel, memoir, or even autobiography—results in different relationships between the reader and narrator. Writing in HTMLGIANT, Art Edwards takes a closer look at…
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The other other Borges
“The other one, the one called Borges, is the one who skates at the Place de la Concorde on blocks of ice.” A D Jameson at HTMLGiant satirizes Jorge Luis Borges’s short piece “Borges And I” while imagining an explanation for…
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“necktie popcorn”
Housten Donham, at HTMLGiant, reviews Andrew Choate’s new book Stingray Clapping. While musing on the minimalist and “oddly pleasurable” pieces, Donham also comments on the current poetry scene. As a student of political poetry, he is not against poetry with…
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Micropress Managing
Rumpus contributor Roxane Gay details the ins and outs of starting a micropress based on the lessons she’s learned starting Tiny Hardcore Press. “You have to be prepared to hustle. You have to be willing to promote your book, and…
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E-book Recommendations
HTML Giant gives us the scoop on seven e-books “you won’t be sorry you downloaded.” First up is Rumpus contributor Joshuah Bearman’s Baghdad Country Club. (Did you see our excerpt?)
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Leigh Stein Interview
HTML Giant has been conducting a week-long interview with Leigh Stein, author of The Fallback Plan (one of the books featured in Roxane Gay’s piece this week). Today, Stein answered questions about the novel’s jokes, and her experience writing poetry.…
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Blueprints of the Afterlife Release and Interview
Today’s HTML Giant interview with Rumpus columnist Ryan Boudinot coincides with the official release of his new novel Blueprints of the Afterlife. Discussion veers toward the book after Boudinot reflects on the interview process and his ambivalence toward the promotional…
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On Revelations
“When you write personally and intimately, difficult questions arise. Whose stories do we, as writers, have the right to tell? To what extent do we have the right to write about the people in our lives? What are the limits…
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Panic Attacks and Poetics
HTML Giant converses with Nate Slawson about his new book Panic Attack, USA. Slawson also discusses the American sonnet, how music led him to poetry, and author readings. “And I do a lot of rocking: reading books, writing, giving readings.…
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Borrowing, Ruining
HTML Giant celebrates the marks we leave–and find–on borrowed things, namely library books. “I like the weird smell of library books, and the way the smell differs. I like seeing how people ruin what they borrow. I like knowing what…