2015
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A List of Literary Teachers
Just in time for back-to-school season, Ploughshares has this list of some of the most memorable teachers in literature.
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New Solo Album from R.E.M.’s Peter Buck
Former R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck has announced a new solo record, Warzone Earth, coming out exclusively on vinyl this October 16th from Little Axe Records. Buck announced Warzone Earth on the official R.E.M. website, calling it “the best solo album I have made.”…
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This Week in Short Fiction
On Thursday, Guernica’s October issue went live with a fantastical tale of childhood by Sofi Stambo. “A Bunch of Savages,” which was chosen by Aimee Bender to win the Disquiet International Literary Program Award in fiction, follows a maybe gypsy,…
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Elise Sherman Talks to Herself
Over at The Nervous Breakdown, Elise Sherman explores her literary roots in a self interview that touches on the South, her neo-Faulknerian tendencies, and the difference between New Orleans and the rest of the world.
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Kloss, Kish, and the Great White Whale
Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake aside, it’s hard to imagine a more mutualistic artist-writer pair than Robert Kloss and Matt Kish. (The Rumpus also recommends the duo of Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg.) Kloss and Kish (who also illustrated every…
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Notable Chicago: 10/2–10/8
Friday 10/2: Malena Mörling and Jonas Ellerström read in English and Swedish from The Star By My Head: Poets from Sweden. Presented with Milkweed Editions, the Swedish American Museum, and the Swedish Arts Council at the Poetry Foundation, 7 p.m.…
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The First Urban Apocalypse
This is the way the world ends: not with a bang but a bronchial spasm. For the Public Domain Review, Brett Beasley examines Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City, widely considered to be the first science fiction novel…
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Censorship in College Newspapers
At the Atlantic, David R. Wheeler examines recent attempts to limit freedom of the press on college campuses, tracking conflicts between university officials and college newspapers and court cases: In 2005, students at Governors State University in Illinois lost a…
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Notes on the Assemblage by Juan Felipe Herrera
Barbara Berman reviews Juan Felipe Herrera’s Notes From the Assemblage today in Rumpus Poetry.
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The National Book of America, According to Borges
The English tend to be reserved, reticent, but Shakespeare flows like a great river, he abounds in hyperbole and metaphor—he’s the complete opposite of an English person. Or, in Goethe’s case, we have the Germans who are easily roused to…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
And you may ask yourself, what DO crows understand about death? Protip: spend your weekend watching wildebeest migrations. The future is all bamboo pavilions as far as the eye can see. Paper airplanes of midcentury NYC. Now let’s end for…
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The Rumpus Interview with Amy Fusselman
Amy Fusselman discusses her latest memoir/manifesto/philosophical treatise Savage Park, the rise of a new kind of nonfiction, and what kind of art “discombobulates her and makes her scream.”