Misadventure
Millard Kaufman’s posthumously published novel evokes noir films of the past in the contemporary labyrinth of Los Angeles.
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Phoenix Books In San Francisco Turns 25
It’s something of a major milestone to keep an independent, used bookstore running for twenty-five years. And that’s exactly what Phoenix Books in San Francisco is celebrating this month. So…
DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #32: It’s So Much Easier to Be the Blowjob Queen
Ask yourself instead: What has been given to me? Ask: What do I have to give back?
The Hurdles Of Rejection
“When a writer tells me they give up, or when they fatalistically declare they will never be published, I begin to understand how little people know about how publishing often…
“I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll be a writer who doesn’t publish’’’
“For three years, Paul Harding’s unpublished novel, Tinkers, sat in a drawer. The writer, a former Boston rock drummer who grew up in Wenham, had tried selling it, but nobody…
Forget “How-To” and Do
“My advice? Put the manuals and the how-to books away. Read the writers themselves, whose work and example are all you really need if you want to write.” Richard Bausch…
The Last Book I Loved: Just Kids
I finished reading Just Kids by Patti Smith at Four Barrel on Valencia Street in San Francisco and although I tried my hardest to blink them back, tears kept falling…
Comics as Poetry
PORNOGRAPHIC BARN OWL creator Ian Huebert celebrates National Poetry Month Rumpus comics style: “Ordnung.”
“There are many excellent stories that don’t interest me.”
“On Easter I signed up my first short story for the Paris Review. It’s by a young woman you’ve never heard of named April Ayers Lawson, and it’s an astonishment.…
The Absolute at Large
Three covers by Josef Čapek from the Japanese book Čapek’s Bookshelf, which collects 120 of his covers:
National Poetry Month: Day 15. “Stonecrop” by Don Share
Stonecrop In the crop of stone, your ink was ripe.