November 2011
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The NBAs and Spinach
At The Millions, Sonya Chung responds to Laura Miller’s argument that the National Book Awards have become “the spinach of literary awards.” Chung advocates for having different awards with distinct selection processes and a reading public that absorbs an array…
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Life Cycle of a Book
An interactive map of the life cycle of a book lets us visualize the publishing process. Hear about each step, from writing to author publicity and everything in between. (Via The Book Bench)
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An Occupy Roundup
The NYPD cleared Zuccotti Park this morning, at 1:00 a.m. The obvious question for Mayor Bloomberg is why in the middle of the night? If your real concern was the “health and fire safety hazard to the protesters and to…
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“‘Occupy’ protesters ousted from Zuccotti Park”
“Hundreds of police officers in riot gear evicted dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters early Tuesday from the park that has become the epicenter of the worldwide movement protesting corporate greed.”
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In Defense of Translation
Professor and translator, David Bellos celebrates the enlightening task of translation in his new book, Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything.
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Morning Coffee
So why do lions and tigers have such ferocious roars? Our friends in the north have new money. Step by step instructions on how to meet a whole lot of racoons at once.
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The Rumpus Interview with Dylan Landis
Dylan Landis, a longtime newspaper and magazine journalist, is the author of Normal People Don’t Live Like This,
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Defoe’s Zombieless Zombie Narrative
“Defoe’s novel, published in 1722, is a mutant factual-fiction that recounts the plague epidemic of 1665, which dispatched almost 100,000 Londoners. Purporting to be the ‘memorial’ of a survivor known only as ‘H.F.’, it was based on genuine documentary sources,…
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Being Flynn
A trailer for Being Flynn, the film based on Rumpus pal Nick Flynn’s Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, is now online.
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Higher Education: Coming and Going
“Many—perhaps most—books on the American university fall into two categories. Jeremiads seem to pop off the presses every week. A fair number of them conform to a single type, one that embraces books as varied in their origins as The…