Writers and Their Day Jobs
Oscar Wilde once wrote, “The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread…” In an interview with The Atlantic,…
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Serena Candelaria
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Serena Candelaria is a Rumpus intern, and a self-proclaimed fiction addict. This summer, she worked at 29th Street Publishing and began writing a novella. She is currently a senior at Yale, where she studies Literature.
New Comic on Life in SF
Rumpus contributor Jon Adams has a new comic Just Add Money in Bold Italic! His work on Bold Italic focuses on life in San Francisco! Read his other comic Ah, San Francisco, which illustrates a…
Learning How to Write
“The Apparent Author,” Meriç Algün Ringborg’s latest exhibition in Istanbul’s Gallery NON, presents a sound installation of an author talking about “her artistic goals, ambitions, and potentials,” as Rumpus contributor…
A Writer’s Best Friend
As the saying has it, a dog is a man’s best friend, but dogs are not always the pets of choice among the literary greats. Ernest Hemingway had his six-toed…
On Faulkner and Cocktails
There are two Faulkners, and each of these Faulkners is embodied by one of the author’s two favorite drinks, as Robert Moor posits in a recent Paris Review article. The julep…
Goodbye to All That: A Reading
On Wednesday, October 23rd, long-time Rumpus contributor and editor of the recent collection Goodbye to All that: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York, Sari Botton will host an event…
Pynchon’s Paranoiac Vision
In 1966, when The Crying of Lot 49 was published, Pynchon’s “all-ecompassing paranoiac vision of history” seemed “so kooky” and “far-fetched.” Fast forward to 2013, and Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge, a…
“A Writer’s Writer”
John Williams’ Stoner has unexpectedly become a bestseller in Europe, but the work remains largely unknown in its own country. In “The Greatest American Novel You’ve Never Heard Of,” New…
Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
“Your Patriarchy Is the Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things: Scenes from a Feminist Youth,” is a McSweeney’s piece that begins with a mother giving birth–asking her doctor not to impose…
Life As We Know It
In her recent piece on Salon, “Am I an alcoholic?” writer Kathleen Volk Miller describes the way her mother and her sister lost themselves in drink, contrasting this with her own…
A Farewell to the Profane
“Profanity shocks nobody anymore,” writes Brad Leithauser in a recent essay for The New Yorker, and still, there remain “unusable words,” words that cannot be used because they might also…
The gift of not responding
There’s a big secret Twitter doesn’t want you to know, as Choire Sicha writes in a recent article on The Awl. “You don’t have to respond to anyone on Twitter.…