2015
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Star Words
Ryan Britt provides a list of non-Star Wars books for Star Wars fans to read. The list includes books by authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, J.K. Rowling, and Carrie Fisher. Check these books out either before you see the new…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
First, we share all the reasons why our Book Clubs are so unique and make the perfect last-minute gift for your literary friends and family members—and for yourself. Then, in the Saturday Essay, Becca Schuh writes about the unique challenges of being…
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Our Literary Footpaths
Over at The Toast, Rebecca Turkewitz writes about the intersections between literary geography and the real, from Joyce’s Dublin and Tolkien’s Middle Europe to Faulkner’s Mississippi and Munro’s Ontario—how we explore these places by walking through pages, and how they…
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The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson
Kevin O’Kelly reviews The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson today in Rumpus Books.
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Marginalia’s Moment
At any moment the reader is ready to become a writer. Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, S. Brent Plate discusses the place of book marginalia as we go forth into the digital age: what will happen to our…
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Women are People—Who Knew?
…there is a canonical body of literature in which women’s stories are taken away from them, in which all we get are men’s stories. And that these are sometimes not only books that don’t describe the world from a woman’s…
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The Rumpus Interview with Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz talks about his newest novel, Ashley Bell, overcoming self-doubt, and “what this incredibly beautiful language of ours allows you to do.”
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A Rumpus Book Club Subscription Makes a Great Gift
We’re at that point in the holiday shopping season where if you don’t already have a gift for someone, you either have to deal with the other last-minute shoppers in stores, pay an outrageous shipping rate online and hope the post…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: White Boy Boricua
The tanner you are, the darker the features, the more people ask, “What are you?” or tell you that you look “exotic,” hoping you’ll be prompted into telling them why your face looks that way.
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Notable NYC: 12/19–12/25
Saturday 12/19: Harry Burke and Juliana Huxtable join the Segue series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 12/20: Guillermo Filice Castro, Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Sarah Gambito, and Mark Nowak join the Sunday Salon series. Jimmys No. 43, 7 p.m.,…
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: In Defense of Not Cooking
Should there be a Bechdel test for women in the kitchen?
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We Wish You A Literary Christmas
From Dickens to Nabokov to Ali Smith, Kate Webb traces the history of authors pondering Christmas, and the 21st century revival of the Christmas story: Even in our prickly individualism, hemmed in by consumer goods, there are moments when we…