Segura Returns to PW!
Former Publishers Weekly deputy reviews editor Jonny Segura will return to the magazine in the new position of senior editor, digital media. On April 16th, Segura will take over responsibility…
Posts by author
Lisa Dusenbery
888 posts
Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Happy Birthday, Jack Kerouac
The author would have turned 90 today. In celebration of his birthday, Open Culture shares the the 1985 documentary Kerouac, the Movie. Slate remembers with a slide show of “Kerouac…
Postcard Lit Mag
“‘Brevity is the soul of wit.’ And of other things, too.” HOOT is a “brief, displayable, shareable” literary magazine on a postcard. Original submissions of fewer than 150 words are…
Much Ado About Franzen
Over the past couple weeks, Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker essay on Edith Wharton has incited a number of responses. At The Daily Beast, Marina Budhos examines why Franzen took such a…
Comedy SuperPAC
Two of our favorite comedians, W. Kamau Bell and Nato Green are teaming up to present Comedy SuperPAC: Promoting Good Comedy & Great Causes Since 2012! The weekly stand-up comedy…
Full Stop Goes to AWP
“So here it is: the trade secrets, the panels and moments we kept bringing back up over meals — really, everything that inspired us to discuss hotel arrangements for the…
In Which Dead Things Live
“What Kafka is to imprisonment and Beckett is to waiting, Schulz is to trash. Not just trash, but stuff — detritus, objects, substances, matter in all its welter and confusion.…
A Wild Adaptation
Have you heard? A film adaptation of Sugar/Cheryl Strayed’s Wild is in the works! Pacific Standard, a new production banner from actress Reese Witherspoon and producer Bruna Papandrea has bought…
Middlemarch Panorama
Rumpus contributor extraordinaire Jason Novak shares an ambitious illustration of George Eliot’s Middlemarch over at the Paris Review Daily.
When You’re Young
“When I read this comic by MariNaomi in The Rumpus, I remembered three people who were amazing to me at critical moments.” Sherman Alexie gave love to MariNaomi’s “SMOKE IN…
Tumbling Publishing
Exploring how and why publishers are using Tumblr to grow an online presence, Publisher’s Weekly converses with Rachel Fershleiser, who does literary strategic outreach for the microblogging company. “Branding is…
On Berdych
Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel’s story “A Note on Type” tells the jealousy and revenge filled saga of the Berdych typeface. “Heyduk designed the typeface to cause strain in the eyes…