How to Sharpen Pencils: The Commercial
Melville House presents a 30-second TV spot for David Rees’ new book, How to Sharpen Pencils. Check out the video after the jump. And don’t miss the great conversation we had with Rees…
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Lisa Dusenbery
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Lisa Dusenbery is the former managing editor of The Rumpus.
Amanda Davis Award
McSweeney’s is accepting submissions for their Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award. “This memorial award is intended to aid a young woman writer of 32 years or younger who both embodies…
Amanda Todd and Myths of the Internet Age
At the New Yorker, Rumpus Saturday editor Michelle Dean writes about Amanda Todd, cyber-harassment, outed Reddit moderator Michael Brutsch, free speech, and the idea that cyberspace would offer a “bodiless”…
“not asking for permission to be human”
The Millions interviews Cheryl Strayed about grief, Sugar, rejection, setting boundaries, and much more. “That’s what authority is. When you’re actually writing from that deepest place within you, if you…
“the literary apologia”
Novelist John Reed, who wrote an excellent piece for us last year on the politics of narrative, talks with Slant about repentant book critics. The conversation includes some kind word…
Morning Moments
NPR’s Weekend Edition interviews Mary Oliver, Pulitzer-prize winning poet and author of the recently released collection, A Thousand Mornings. “One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must…
Alcott Rumpus Reading
Kathleen Alcott will be at San Francisco’s Alley Cat Books tonight, reading from her new debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (September’s Rumpus Book Club selection). The event will…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Poetry Fellowship
The University of San Francisco has established a fellowship in honor of Lawrence Ferlinghetti “who published and supported the work of writers who were outsiders―outside traditional academia or traditional social…
Blame Game
At Clutch, Evette Dionne writes an open letter to Abigail Fisher, the young woman whose case against the University of Texas is currently being heard by the Supreme Court. Fisher…
Kathleen Alcott in San Francisco!
Kathleen Alcott will be at Alley Cat Books next week, reading from her new debut novel, The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets (September’s Rumpus Book Club selection). Join her on Tuesday,…
“Underwear is definitely pants”
Dissecting the lies writers tell themselves, Alexander Chee offers sound advice on how to succeed — or at least succeed in being honest with oneself. “Don’t sit there imagining disapproval…
Seeming versus Being
“Ultimately, A Working Theory of Love examines, quite successfully, our semi-delusional approach to interpersonal relationships and contemplates whether the world comes down on the side of seem or be—or if…