Blogs
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The Author in a Lie: Book Club Roundup
“It’s funny—when it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. For fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth,” Tayari Jones, author of Silver Sparrow, says in a self-interview on The Nervous Breakdown.…
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Silver Sparrow ♥
“The most remarkable part of Silver Sparrow is its pacing. The novel moves at a very steady rhythm, Jones’s words on the page carrying the cadences and intonations of a great oral storyteller.” Rumpus Book Club member John Francisconi loves…
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DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #73: I’m Standing Right Next to You
In this very special Rumpus interview, Lidia Yuknavitch interviews our beloved Sugar.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #39: Luuk Imhann in Conversation with a Fisherman
There’s fisherman who is famous in my town in northern Holland, near the sea. They say he has been around the world a few times, so I thought I would ask him some questions. A very short interview followed.
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Conversations with Writers Braver Than Me: Elisa Albert
Albert, who is at work on her second novel, describes both books as “personal” as opposed to autobiographical, although they are rooted in her own experiences.
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Orientation ♥
“The story collection is made up of moments, one after another, of startlingly poignant yet ostensibly ordinary interactions.” Rumpus Book Club member John Francisconi loves this month’s selection, Orientation by Daniel Orozco.
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Evan Fleischer: The Last Book I Loved, Assignment: Churchill
The last book I loved–the book I wanted to take to a sandbox and introduce to Woody Guthrie’s Bound for Glory where I could watch one send a Matchbox car through the sand and another a green soldier, one saying…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #86
MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Marina and the Diamonds.
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T. Jones on TNB
“It’s funny—when it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. For fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.” Tayari Jones, author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection Silver Sparrow, chats with…
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Erin Dorsey: The Last Book I Loved, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was exceedingly more interesting than I’d expected. My only knowledge of the story was that Dr. Jekyll drinks a potion and turns into a monster, who calls himself Mr. Hyde. I’d actually had the two…
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Lion’s Club: Book Club Roundup
Woot! Adam Levin won the NY Public Library’s Young Lion Fiction Award for The Instructions. Looks like Mr. Levin’s getting the drinks next time (the award comes with a $10,000 cash prize). The Book Spy blog spots Levin on the…
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Robert Stubblefield The Last Book I Loved, Honey in the Horn
Ask a group of book-loving Oregonians who their only Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction is, and what do you suppose the percentage of correct answers might be? Easier to predict would perhaps be the most frequent incorrect answer. My money…