Part-Time Faculty Are Poor
Writers expecting to supplement their art by teaching college level courses might need to find a new day job. A quarter of all part-time college faculty receive some sort of…
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Ian MacAllen
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Ian MacAllen is the author of Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American (Rowman & Littlefield, April 2022). His writing has appeared in Chicago Review of Books, Southern Review of Books, The Offing, 45th Parallel Magazine, Little Fiction, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and elsewhere. Find him at IanMacAllen.com.
Less Fight in Latest Amazon Deal
Last year, Amazon went to war with Hachette. Since then, the remaining big publishers have been cutting their own deals with the retail giant. Macmillan, who also had a spat…
Unusual Libraries Result from Modern Needs
Libraries arrive on camels, roll up on three wheels, float into our lives, speed along underground, or sometimes just like to host a party. Libraries of the past have been formal,…
Save the Birds: A Rumpus Roundup
Jonathan Franzen is an avid bird lover, as anyone who read Freedom might have guessed. Two weeks ago, Franzen wrote a piece for the New Yorker that, among other things,…
Notable NYC: 4/11–4/17
Saturday 4/11: Lisa Samuels and Stephanie Young join the Segue Series. Zinc Bar, 4:30 p.m., $5. Sunday 4/12: Jaime Clarke reads from his latest novel World Gone Water with Jeffrey…
Mile-High (Reading) Club
The hottest new reading series launches at 35,000 feet. Southwest Airlines has added authors to its Artists on the Fly program meaning passengers have the chance experience an inflight author…
LitHub Launches
Lithub, a new web endeavor from Electric Literature with partnerships between publishers, magazines, journals, and existing websites, launched yesterday with the aim of becoming a portal at the center of…
How to Read in the Modern World
There are many distractions in the modern world like television and listicles. As a result, people aren’t reading in the same way they did a half century ago, opines Oliver…
Writing While Black
The publishing industry is 89% white. That isn’t the only problem when it comes to race and literature. BuzzFeed’s new Literary Editor Saeed Jones reflects on the issue in the…
Oh, Indiana
The state of Indiana legalized discrimination last week allowing businesses to turn down customers for arbitrary reasons. Rumpus Essays Editor Emeritus Roxane Gay, who lives in Indiana, weighed in on…
Notable NYC: 4/4–4/10
Saturday 4/4: Dorothea Lasky, Lisa Cohen, Wayne Koestenbaum, Kate Zambreno, Marie Buck, and Gary Indiana celebrate the latest from Animal Shelter. McNally Jackson, 7 p.m., free. Lola Calise, Ian McLellan…
Politics, Lost in Translation
Asymptote Journal takes a look at some of the concerns translators have when confronting a politically problematic text. The choice of text is of course the first decision a translator…