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Guia Cortassa
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Which Book Are You?
If you’re eager to know more about you and your future, you certainly need to check this high school literature zodiac Rumpus contributor Timothy Leo Taranto created for The Paris Review. No birthdays or constellation involved, all you need to know is…
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Early Birds vs. Sleeping Beauties.
We all know that beauty sleep requires at least 7 hours, but how long is the perfect amount for writers? At Brain Pickings, Maria Popova teamed up with Italian graphic designer Giorgia Lupi and illustrator Wendy MacNaughton for this interesting graphic,which…
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The Value of Ghostwriting
“When a nonfiction author decides to write a book, she starts hunting for a story and writes up a book proposal. When a celebrity decides to pen her memoirs, she calls her agent.” At Priceonomics, Alex Mayyasi gets deep into…
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A Day in the Life of George Saunders
George Saunders talked to Sky Dylan-Robbins about his writing daily routine in a video interview out now on the New Yorker. When asked about beginning the writing process, he answered, “There’s a mysterious element, a magical element, right? And it’s…
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War-less Class
For at least a decade, Americans have been living in the shadow of war and yet, except in pop fiction of the Tom Clancy variety (where, in the end, we always win), there’s remarkably little evidence of it At Guernica,…
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Brave New World & California
It’s often said “The Sixties” officially began with the death of JFK and America’s “loss of innocence.” But without the dedicated and well-documented cosmic explorations of Aldous Huxley and his cohorts, the decade would have looked very different. Steffie Nelson…
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Outing Literary Heroes
Ever wondered about the sexual orientation of classic novels protagonist? Without much effort, several many of the main characters in Fitzgerald’s masterpiece can be read as gay: the flamboyantly fabulous party-throwing, clotheshorse Gatsby, with his closets full of pink suits;…
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Where Are You?
Visual Edition just presented its most recent project, “Where You Are,” in which 16 authors and artists were asked to create a personal map. Among the invited contributors are Rumpus interviewees Sheila Heti with Ted Mineo, Geoff Dyer and Tao…
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The Books We Teach
When asked to give advice to creative writers, Rick Moody answered, “It’s more about the rewriting than the writing.” At the Ploughshares’ blog, Erinrose Mager interviews Rumpus Columnist Moody on his teaching method and the (im)possible intertwinings between his classes…
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A Talent Show for Writers?
“Masterpiece” is the first-ever talent show for aspiring writers and debuted in Italy. In this talent show, contenders will live write on different themes and the winning contestant will receive a publishing deal with Bompiani, a major Italian publishing company.…
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Live Reviewing With Gifs
At Salon, Rumpus interviewee Laura Miller explains how the internet is not only directly changing traditional writing but also books reviews. Apparently, GIFs and liveblogging are becoming popular forms in literary reviews. In addition to the integration of GIFs into text reviews, other…
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Advice from Vonnegut
Advice my father gave me: never take liquor into the bedroom. Don’t stick anything in your ears. Be anything but an architect. To celebrate Kurt Vonnegut, Maria Popova posted on her Brain Pickings an interesting list of advices the author…