Starting this week, the Rumpus will feature roundups where we’ll share links to things we think you would want to read from book blogs around the Internet. Hopefully, it’ll save you some time. If you don’t already read book blogs, it’ll take more of your time, but that’s ok, because the Rumpus wants you to spend more time reading about books and less time worrying about whether or not you are on a boat.
In Bookslut, Samantha Hunt discusses Nichola Tesla and the blending of genres in her new book The Invention of Everything Else, all while eviscerating memoir: “I am thrilled when I hear another memoir has been exposed as a phony because I think, hooray, fiction wins again!”
Jacket Copy reports that Jerry Stahl thinks that all life is foreplay until the apocalypse at the LA Times Festival of Books, which is not that surprising.
Shane Jones and Blake Butler discuss their new books, being published and what it means to be an “Internet writer” over at Powell’s Books.
Marie Mockett discusses the ancient Japanese psychological novel, the meaning of the word “literary,” and her forthcoming novel Picking Bones from Ash over at Maud Newton.
And finally, Tor.com reminds us all that tomorrow, May 2nd, is free comic book day! Yes, that’s right. Free. So go visit your local comic book store.
