Early Cormac
The 50th anniversary issue of the Phoenix, University of Tennessee’s literary magazine, will feature two uncollected works by Cormac McCarthy: “‘A Drowning Incident’ (1959) and ‘Wake for Susan’ (1960).” (via…
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Photos From Last Night
The talented Maggie Oran has posted photos from last night’s Rumpus event in San Francisco.
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Rumpus Film Editor Jeremy Hatch is now offering his editorial skills to the general public. He has nine years of experience as a writer and as an editor, he has…
Sean Carman: The Last Book I Loved, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
The great thing about Russian literature is how strange it is. The characters in Dostoevsky are always breaking out in histrionics. They bustle about, shake their fists, and call each…
Black Thursday at Borders
“It took a little longer than employees thought, but the expected cuts in the store workforce at Borders began last week in what employees on various blogs are calling ‘Black…
SXSW and Monofonus
The South by Southwest Conferences and Festivals begin this Friday, 3/12, in Austin, Texas, and continue through 3/21. If you happen to be attending the festival, be sure to make…
Resident Bohemians: The Cricketer, Joseph O’Neill
In his much celebrated third novel, Netherland, Irish-born Joseph O’Neill writes: “Not counting the lobby, the Chelsea Hotel had ten floors. Each was served by a dim hallway that ran…
Morning Coffee
Pictures of plant gall, one of the weirdest/raddest looking things in the world. It is hard to argue with 8-bit NYC. By the way, if you live in New York,…
RECESSION SEX WORKERS #9: The Refined Tyranny of Mistress Marzanna Katorga
“The early messages in my family were that women are the source of power. They made the household decisions, held the purse strings, and if the woman of the house…
David Foster Wallace Archives
The archive of David Foster Wallace has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center.