“The Devil’s Checks Never Bounce”
Salon takes a closer look at Amazon’s (quiet) practice of giving grants to small publishers and literary nonprofits, questioning whether Amazon is “backing book culture or buying off critics.” “At…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Relational Reading
Author Sheila Heti, a long-time astrology naysayer, came across popular U.K. astrologer Jonathan Cainer last year and has been following his daily writings ever since. In conversation at The Believer,…
Best Contradiction
Electric Literature’s monthly Critical Hit Awards for book reviews gives David Winters’ Rumpus review of Dogma the prize for Best Contradiction. Hooray! “Reviewing a book that ‘sets itself up to…
“Poet of the Disregarded”
At The Book Bench, Teju Cole reviews Across the Land and the Water, the first major volume of poems by W. G. Sebald. Walking us through the collection, Cole sheds light…
“Conversations with Pauline Kael”
At Full Stop, Amanda Shubert reviews Brian Kellow’s Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark, while interrogating the particularly vitriolic (and often gendered) criticism that continues to be leveled against…
Word Choices
At The New York Times, Constance Hale contributes a series of writing lessons. Her latest entry, “Desperately Seeking Synonyms,” zeroes in on the complexities of nouns. “The best writers combine…
Celebrate Poetry
In honor of National Poetry Month, Knopf and Tumblr are teaming up for a poem-a-day celebration. You can follow and submit your own poetry here. The Knopf/Tumblr duo will host…
Throwaways on the Radio
Listen in as Rumpus contributor Melissa Chadburn reads from her excellent essay “The Throwaways” on American Public Media’s Marketplace. “If we are saying “I value you” when we pay our…
Wild‘s Earned Transformation
“It’s not that she’s scraped off all the detritus of her past difficulties along the trail; rather, she’s become acutely aware of it and learned that the only possible way…
The Wolf Knife
The Believer will present Laurel Nakadate’s The Wolf Knife at the IFC Center on Monday, April 9th at 8pm. The screening, which celebrates the release of The Believer’s new film…
Nick Flynn on Adaptation
Guernica has an extensive interview with Nick Flynn, who reflects on the process of translating Another Bullshit Night in Suck City into film, fathers, and the final book in his…
A WILD Night
If you missed Monday’s WILD Night with Sugar and The Rumpus, check out Electric Literature’s write-up and photos of the festivities. “As the band Widowspeak began playing and the reading…