June 2010
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“Blake never wrote novels. Whitman never wrote novels.”
“I love novels, and I read them more than anything, but stories cut in sharp and hard and are able to reveal things in a different way: they’re highly charged, a slightly newer form, and inherently more contemporary.” Author David…
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Cinderella Meets Serpentina In Kiev
Marina from Ukraine (visit her on last.fm) contributed these illustrations by Alexandr Mychajlow for Fairytales of Foreign Writers (Ukraine, 1988). I can’t find any info on the artist.
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #4: Betsy Birdsall
I live on 1.5 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains in a house that was built in the 1920s out of local stone. Most of the original buildings in the area are made out of the same stone, from the…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #12: Joen Madonna in Conversation with Cherry Crawley (Her Dead Mother)
This is an interview with my mom. I was hyper-critical of her when she was alive and never gave her enough credit. She was an only child, raised in DC by older over-bearing parents. She married the first man she…
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Morning Coffee
A little deep sea photography porn to start your midweek right. Nice try, newspaper. Superblimp! Sometimes we are not above just linking to a list of weird cults.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is widely regarded, not pejoratively, as an “unclassifiable” novelist.
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The Case For Fictional Towns
“Do writers from New York or Los Angeles or Boston create fictional cities to disguise their hometown? I can’t think of any examples. I think writers from small Midwestern towns are more likely to create fictional places, fictional families, fictional…
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The British 20 Under 40
Great Britain is making its own lists. And Great Britain is still publishing novels. If you believe the rumors, the raging historical narratives are printed by hand, folded into folios, carried from London’s dust into the countryside in the talons…
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The Rumpus Book Club: Blogging Citrus County #4
Join The Rumpus Book Club today to receive our second selection, Doug Dorst’s The Surf Guru. ** Just a quick post today. Such a vigorous discussion about the book as a whole has been going on at our previous post…