Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #39
It’ll just be me and the open sea, Doug. A what? No, no. None of that bullshit. I’m just gonna navigate by the stars like a true explorer. If all…
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The Shaking Woman
Siri Hustvedt’s memoir is a sprawling exploration of memory and the ways trauma manifests in physical illness—less Mary Karr, more Oliver Sacks.
The Second Life of the Cassette Tape and its Connection to Books as Cultural Objects
The Boston Globe published a great story about the re-emergence of the cassette tape as a way for indie bands and their listeners to turn against the dominance of the…
Notable New York, This Week 7/26 – 8/1
In New York this week Rick Moody kicks off his book tour, BOMB Magazine hosts its Summer Bash at Glasslands, Black Keys perform at Summer Stage, Anderbo.com hosts Anderbo Indoors,…
Morning Coffee
Big Picture reminds you that the sky is pretty rad sometimes. Have you seen Vancouver’s new Douglas Coupland statue? Blissfull Joy and the SATs. Black holes are hella rad yo.…
THE BLURB #18: The Long Haul
Though I have doubted my talent, I’ve never doubted my conviction that this was the path I had to be on. Writing is like my Siamese twin: freakish, alive, weighty, uncanny. Were we to be separated, I doubt that I could survive it.
Seth’s Sunday Short Shorts
Fear not: there are no pictures of me in daisy dukes below. It’s just that I’ve had a couple posts that listed some fun and weird and awesome very short…
How To Give a F$@#
Some days everything goes wrong. Like today, when I called the NYTBR the NYTRB on Twitter, or when I linked to the wrong thing on the book blog roundup, or…
How Old Is The Novel?
“At university in the early 1970s, I was led to believe the novel originated in England in the 18th century, and no professor told me otherwise as I pursued my…
Who Do You Write Like?
You read last week in The Rumpus about the new “statistical analysis tool” that tells you who you write like. Coding Robots, a group of software developers, seemingly created I…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
A judge decides that Kafka’s safe deposit box, which contains an unpublished short story, will be released instead of destroyed, as was stated in his will. “Some things you just…