2014
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The New York Times Uncensored
At Slate, Justin Peters argues that the New York Times’s policy on profanity is in desperate need of updating.
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Lost Daughter
The NYRB gives a profile of Elena Ferrante and her Naples novels, but the only thing more alluring than the author’s anonymity is the prose itself: There is a devastating exchange in The Story of a New Name, the second of…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, say hello to our new Saturday media editor, Arielle Bernstein! Then, in “All The World’s A Stage,” Grant Snider neatly illustrates our inner performer. Poet Kent Shaw marvels at the “glandular muscularity” of water as a theme in Harmony…
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The Rise and Fall of Alt Lit
The Alt Lit community brought together a disparate group of writers and poets from the sorts of backgrounds often ignored by mainstream literary fiction, leveraging the Internet and building a loyal and dedicated following. Then this fall, allegations of a…
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All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews
Brett Josef Grubisic reviews All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam Toews today in Rumpus Books.
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A Biography of the Biography
For literary biography to survive as a genre, it ought to take its lead from literature and go even further. For the Guardian, Stuart Kelly looks at the history of biographies and argues that the form should catch up with…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Great news! Someone figured out belly lint. Maybe there’s a mirror universe out there where time runs backwards. Maybe a lot of things. Someone stole a bunch of orca teeth. The sad life of the Mexican mole lizard. In case…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #60: On Mentorship
In an empirically-preoccupied world, mentorship appears to be unscientific, impossible to quantify, and perhaps even sentimental.
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More Sunday Links
Friday was one of those days where it felt like way too many threads had come unraveled from the thrift-store sweater of my life and were just tangled in an heap of wet yarn at my feet. One of those…
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Sunday Links
I find Lisa Carver’s bracing words about rejection fun to read but painful to put in practice. Here’s some scientific proof that rejection physically hurts. What makes me feel better about rejection? Reading about how it was meted out to…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Get Rejected
In this excerpt from her new book How Not to Write, Lisa Carver explains why it’s good to get rejected.
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Meet Our New Film, TV, & Media/Saturday Editor!
Welcome aboard to our new Film, TV, & Media/Saturday Editor, Arielle Bernstein! In addition to writing here at the Rumpus, Arielle’s work has been also been published or is forthcoming in The Millions, The Nervous Breakdown, St. Petersburg Review and PANK…