2015
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Digital Technology is Valid Literature
Digital technology is changing literature. Those changes are more than just variations on traditional forms like the novel. Video game storytelling, for instance, is a perfectly valid form of art and yet often lacks recognition in the literary world. That needs to…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Perhaps you’d like to peruse 98 years of Girl Scouts catalogs? It’s pretty dang amazing that designing the suits we’ll wear on Mars isn’t a purely speculative exercise. Here’s some more abandoned place porn for you. All I want is…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff talks about her new novel, Fates and Furies, the life of creative people and those who love them, and why she’s grateful to anyone who reads books.
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Diaz Urges Readers to Diversify
For the Huffington Post, Carolina Moreno discusses Junot Diaz’s recent appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where the award-winning author stressed the importance of reading authors from diverse backgrounds: You look at this country and you look at this world…
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Six Interviews at Once
Salon asked six authors with new books the same questions. From Maris Kreizman to Susan Cheever, it’s no surprise they all had very different (and very fitting) answers.
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Introducing: Flannery O’Connor
O’Connor is nothing if not overwhelming. Over at Electric Literature, Adrian Van Young has compiled a Flannery O’Connor reading primer to help those approaching the body of work of “the greatest American writer ever to load up a typewriter,” just reissued…
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This Week in Posivibes: The Wake
In a continued bid to reissue all things that are amazing and that record collectors covet, Captured Tracks is releasing a combined LP and EP/Singles collection by the great post-punk band The Wake. The album in question is Here Comes…
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Oldies, Goodies
If great art is supposed to be surprising, do great writers have to change? At The Millions, Drew Nellins Smith wonders whether there can be too much of a good thing: I just get it. However much I admired his work, it had…
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Eat Your Peas
Having some novelist (or poet or playwright) assert an individual consciousness—in and of itself— is a profoundly threatening act if you’re a dictator.
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Mothers, Tell Your Daughters Makes a Splash
Writing about the same river culture that Bonnie Jo Campbell once discussed with The Rumpus, the New York Times‘s Sunday Book Review called Mothers, Tell Your Daughters “watchful and viscerally alive” with a “spirit of indomitability.”
