2014
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New York, Collected
At the New Yorker, Valeria Luiselli gives us an essay in defense of monuments, libraries, park benches, daughters, Dickinson, and ‘simplicissimusses’: In that first New York of my early twenties, I decided that I despised writers who admitted to crying…
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Word of the Day: Ubeity
(n.); the condition or quality of being in a place, of being located or situated; whereness or ubication; from the Latin ubi (“where”) “I love repetition. I love doing the same thing at the same time and in the same…
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Paper Trumpets #14: Shadow Made of Water
Sometimes I don’t realize I’m doing something clever until later.
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Nell Zink, International Woman of Mystery
Nell Zink’s debut novel, The Wallcreeper, offers a dark coming-of-age story of a married woman not all that dissimilar from Zink herself. Zink has lived a global lifestyle, picking up and moving to various cities on a whim. Matthew Jakubowski…
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Notable San Francisco: 12/10–12/16
Wednesday 12/10: Jon Sindell celebrates his publication of short fictions, The Roadkill Collection, with stories interpreted by Joe Clifford, Andrew O. Dugas, Candy Shue, Deborah Steinberg, Lauren Traetto, Siamak Vossoughi (and Jon himself, of course), as well as live music by Michael Crabtree…
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Genealogy of Hobbits and Hiawatha
Through his research for an article for the journal Tolkien Studies, John Garth believes he has discovered a surprising source text for several episodes from Middle Earth: Longfellow’s trochaic epic, “The Song of Hiawatha.” The dragon Smaug has long been…
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Gifts Continue Rolling in for Ferguson Library
Following the grand jury verdict in Ferguson, protests shut down local civic institutions like schools. However, the local public library continued to serve as a beacon of hope, providing area residents with access to books, Internet, and entertainment. Last week,…
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Love Sonnets and Elegies by Louise Labé, translated by Richard Sieburth
Patrick James Dunagan reviews Richard Sieburth’s translation of Louise Labé’s Love Sonnets and Elegies today in Rumpus Poetry.
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Remembering Poet Claudia Emerson
The poetry community has been mourning what seems like an exceptional number of losses in the past few months; the New York Times remembrance of Claudia Emerson marks yet another. Emerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2005 collection The…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
There are moon trees among us. It’s mind blowing to think that it’s time to consider the best possible Mars landing sites. Very soon you’ll be able to watch the first ever British sci-fi film. Also: very soon you may…
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The Rumpus Interview with Wayne Harrison
Wayne Harrison discusses his debut novel, The Spark and the Drive, fiction, working as a correctional officer, and Carl Benz’s three-wheeled Motor Car.
