I Would Like Very Much to Hate You: A Rumpus Lamentation
My wife got upset last night, after she heard about the Rand Paul supporters who tackled a progressive activist named Lauren Valle. One of them stepped on her head. Valle…
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Keep It Brief
“Have you ever wanted to review a new book of poetry, but you felt like you might not have enough to say?” Rumpus pals and poets extraordinaire D. A. Powell…
Danya’s Tech Roundup
The new color Nook shows that e-reader makers are acknowledging that digital books need to be beautiful as well as readable. Amazon recognized they had to respond to the trend,…
Dear Old Dad…
Today in Book Review, Regina Marler reviews Anthony De Sa’s new collection of stories, Barnacle Love. Read the review.
Maya’s Boxes
343 boxes of Maya Angelou’s “personal papers and documents,” including letters from the likes of James Baldwin and Malcolm X, have been acquired by The New York Public Library‘s Schomburg Center…
Dear Old Dad…
Anthony De Sa’s novel imagines two lives—a father who leaves one country but fails to thrive in another, and the son who spends his life trying to figure him out.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
2Today written on a stool! Please do not misuse this: how to break open an airplane bathroom. Every day is a good day for vintage Irish book design. This link…
A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #31: Ben Roethlisberger and Flannery O’Connor
Ben Roethlisberger, the Pittsburgh quarterback disgraced last spring when a 20-year-old college student accused him of sexually assaulting her in a bar, is back on the field after serving a…
Translating Murakami
“Q: What is Murakami like in person? “A: Quiet, funny, modest, a lot like the ‘Boku,’ or ‘me,’ narrator in the early works.” An interview with Jay Rubin, who has…
eRejection
“Three decades ago I received typewritten rejection letters that were thoughtful, insightful, sometimes even beneficial. The electronic burps I’m getting today are, for the most part, shallow, cursory and absolutely…
“Quotes by Eli Horowitz”
“So far, for writers and publishers, the notion of an ebook is something that you sort of surrender to.” A few quotes from editor Eli Horowitz about crowdsourcing, the design…