The Rumpus Interview with Blake Butler
Blake Butler is the author of There Is No Year (Harper Perennial, 2011), Scorch Atlas (Featherproof Books, 2010), and Ever (Calamari Press, 2009). He is the editor of HTMLGIANT, Lamination…
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2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are your illusions for the year. Hey dudes, there is hella water on the moon yo. Good uses of tubes. Avant-garde books are pretty neat! This makes a lot…
Worth the Effort
Dick Wimmer, “who after 25 years of submissions and more than 150 rejections finally got [his] book published” in 1989, making him the self-declared “most-rejected published novelist in history,” passed…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #74: Ten Angry Boys
When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair.
“Fiction Must Stick to Facts”
“My first novel is labeled as and widely considered to be historical fiction, but I can honestly say I never thought of it that way, not in all the years…
How to Promote Your Book
Alina Simone, Eugene Mirman, and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott have perfected the art of marketing.
Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Wall Street is not too happy with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, even after Microsoft’s recent, somewhat controversial purchase of Skype. Skype has, incidentally, been having some major problems this week.…