2011
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John Sayles
Today we interviewed storytelling legend John Sayles. You can read an excerpt from Sayles’ new novel, A Moment In the Sun, here, and check dates for his cross-country road-trip book tour here (he’s in the Bay Area this weekend).
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The Author in a Lie: Book Club Roundup
“It’s funny—when it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. For fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth,” Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow, says in a self-interview on The Nervous Breakdown.…
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How Much Time Do You Have Today?
Because Atlantic associate editor Conor Friedersdorf has compiled “Nearly 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism” from 2010.
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Man Has Sex with 1000 Cars!
Or: Looks like someone caught the Love Bug! (Get it?) Seriously, for real.
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The Patron Saint of Bad Marriages and Atomic Bombs in Peace Time
Reese’s poems…often bless the patience and attention of the reader by not demanding it.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
As it turns out, the most important question (evolution-wise) may be “what’s that smell?” I really like these Winnipeg skating shelters. I’ve been worried about this sort of thing for a while; digital masters are disappearing. Looking at Chayefsky’s Network…
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The Rumpus Interview with John Sayles
John Sayles is a force of nature, a do-it-yourself renaissance man—director, actor, screenwriter, script doctor, novelist.
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Critics vs. “The Novel”
“Critics think their role is to choose between innovation and convention, dig a trench, and lob grenades.” Jess Row has written a long but interesting essay concerning the many deaths of “the novel.”
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Silver Sparrow ♥
“The most remarkable part of Silver Sparrow is its pacing. The novel moves at a very steady rhythm, Jones’s words on the page carrying the cadences and intonations of a great oral storyteller.” Rumpus Book Club member John Francisconi loves…