Rozalia Jovanovic

Rozalia Jovanovic is a founding editor of Gigantic, a magazine of short prose and art. She is the Deputy Editor of Flavorpill and has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony and Columbia University. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming from Unsaid, The Believer, Everyday Genius, Guernica, elimae, and Esquire.com. She blogs at The Astonishing Egg and is The Rumpus New York Editor.

Features & Reviews

Rozalia Jovanovic

Sep 29, 2009

The Surface of Things: The Rumpus Long Interview with Tao Lin

The characters in Tao Lin’s work drink smoothies, use g-chat and steal, all with equal gravity, or lack thereof.
Art, Features & Reviews, Film, Music

Rozalia Jovanovic

Sep 28, 2009

Notable New York, This Week 9/28-10/4

This week in New York, Charles Simic reads, Spin Mag hosts Salman Rushdie, The New York Film Festival opens, Philip Seymour Hoffman stars in Peter Sellars’ production of Othello and Robert Lepage’s “Mindblowing” Lipsynch begins at BAM. Monday, September 28,…
Art, Features & Reviews, Film, Music

Rozalia Jovanovic

Sep 21, 2009

Notable New York, This Week 9/21-9/27

As the New York Bureau Chief, I thought it might be a good idea to round up some notable literary and cultural events going on around New York that I think readers of The Rumpus would be interested in. So,…
Art

Rozalia Jovanovic

Sep 21, 2009

The New Yorker Festival Is On Its Way

The New Yorker Festival is fast approaching, and tickets are on sale now. As always, the festival, which runs from October 16-18, promises to bring together the most interesting minds in literature and the arts including Jonathan Franzen, A.M. Homes,…
Features & Reviews

Rozalia Jovanovic

Sep 20, 2009

Thurston Moore’s Audience: A Subjective Account of the Brooklyn Book Festival

September 13, 2009 10:37am – Walking by Book Stands Tao Lin T-shirts were dangling on hangers at the Melville House booth at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The T-shirts said “Tao Lin: 1983- ????” Across from Melville House was the Ugly…
Features & Reviews

Rozalia Jovanovic

Sep 16, 2009

Gigantic Goes Live

Gigantic, A Magazine of Short Prose and Art just launched its online version with chapter 18 of Shya Scanlon’s Forecast 42 Project, new fiction from J.A. Tyler, and art by Thomas Doyle. The online journal also houses Joe Wenderoth’s Seizure…
Features & Reviews

Rozalia Jovanovic

Sep 12, 2009

Don’t Miss the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival: Sunday September 13

Reasons to attend the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival: 1) it’s one of the most hip, smart and diverse American literary events, 2) because Ben Marcus, Sarah Manguso, Thurston Moore, Heidi Julavits and Tao Lin are just some of the stars…
Other

Rozalia Jovanovic

Aug 25, 2009

You Don’t Know Me: Bomb, Opium, Gigantic New York Summer Soiree

Get ready to get your rocks off. Literary art mags Bomb, Opium and Gigantic are joining forces to host a night of short artistic/musical/literary programs this Wednesday, August 26th at Bowery Electric to benefit their efforts in literature and art.…
Art

Rozalia Jovanovic

Jul 13, 2009

Uncommon Catharsis

Macro Sea has reportedly laid plans to put dumpster pools in strip mall parking lots in Brooklyn to demonstrate the creative re-use of refuse bins. The project is part of Macro Sea’s broader vision to denude the American strip mall…
Art

Rozalia Jovanovic

Jul 8, 2009

Animatio Absurdus: The Rumpus Interview with Arthur Jones

Gored by a banana on a barroom floor, a man lies supine as a nun slaps a midget, a down-and-out Santa drinks hard and a sullied beauty queen totes a severed head.
Other

Rozalia Jovanovic

Jul 7, 2009

The Long, The Short, and the One-Sentence—Rumpus Interviews Since 3/1/2009
Features & Reviews

Rozalia Jovanovic

Jul 3, 2009

Journal Highlight: Guernica, The Believer and Cabinet

Guernica talks to Fatima Bhutto, 27-year-old poet and Pakistan’s heir apparent, about the death of her father in one of Pakistan’s famous “encounters,” the two sides of Benazir and why Obama legitimizes the Taliban. In “Dancing About Architecture,” Arthur Philips’s…

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