“Fill your hand, you son of a bitch.”
Really informative essay over at The New York Times about Charles Portis, author of True Grit, the novel that inspired the John Wayne classic and the Coen brothers redo. NYT…
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2010
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Deus Ex Machina so far
Rumpus Book Club member Joseph M. Owens responds to this month’s book club selection, Deus Ex Machina by Andrew Foster Altschul. ** I always like to get my overall impressions…
Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Jillian Lauren
I wrote the book with a tremendous suspension of disbelief; I wrote it as if no one was ever going to read it. I know that sounds like a cliché.
Jena Osman’s Network Links
During our Rumpus Poetry Book Club discussion with Jena Osman (edited version here) we asked her to send us a collection of links that pointed to a few of the…
Horn! Interviews
HORN! INTERVIEWS: Matt Debenham Another fantastic Rumpus Comic from Kevin Thomas.
Not Safe for Kids
Whoops! A Chinese publisher has had “to recall a collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales after mistakenly translating an erotic Japanese version of the stories.”
Close By and Personal: A Book Club Round Up
Poet and essayist S.X. Rosenstock recaps a night in West Hollywood with readers from Rumpus Women, Volume 1 on The Huffington Post. “Prior to this I’ve never been at a…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
2010 was a weird year for animals. Cataloging the world’s endangered languages so you don’t have to. Godot’s lost E-vite invitation. Where did all this gold come from? (Space!) Also,…
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Jena Osman
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club talks with Jena Osman about her collection The Network.
“The 20th century saw an onslaught of literary depictions of the nihilistic state.”
“… [some people] may feel the kind of ‘stomach level sadness’ that David Foster Wallace described, a sadness that drives them to distract themselves by any number of entertainments, addictions,…