Rumored Existence
Poetry Daily has posted Timothy Donnelly’s “The Rumored Existence of Other People,” which can be found in Donnelly’s collection The Cloud Corporation (this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book Club pick).
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Ames on “How to write a TV show, sort of.”
Our friend Jonathan Ames writes about his transition from plagiarizing college student to pretty damn successful TV writer.
“But Madame Bovary has already been translated.”
Lydia Davis explains why she decided to create a new translation of Madame Bovary. Read our recent interview with Lydia Davis here.
10/40/70 #23: Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974
This ongoing experiment in film writing freezes a film at 10, 40, and 70 minutes, and keeps the commentary as close to those frames as possible. This week, I examine…
Shovelman: “Moonshine”
Dude plays a shovel like a guitar. He also played our most recent Rumpus in San Francisco. Read our writeup of him here.
English Authors Offended By the Present Tense
England: land of quibblers. Some of the nation’s top writers are at the throat of the present tense. Philip Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy, said, “I just…
The Pale King
David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King “will be published on tax day, April 15, and feature cover art by Wallace’s widow, the painter Karen Green.”
La Vita Nuova
Elena Trofimova’s illustrations for a 1985 Russian edition of Dante’s La Vita Nouva:
Two Threads
Mary Ruefle’s Selected Poems is best appreciated not for its message or its drama, but for its expert way at guiding a reader through the writer’s lively imagination.
Elissa Bassist Recounts The Rumpus
In “VIDA Counts The Rumpus” two female writers from VIDA: Women in Literary Arts “crunch the numbers and let us know how The Rumpus is doing in the gender disparity department.”…