Book Publishing Hierarchy
We also make an exception for a list if it’s really funny, and we’re on it. Hence: Paul Bogaards’ “Hierarchy of Book Publishing: The Top 100.”
Features & Reviews
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Diane Williams Q&A
McSweeney’s interviews Diane Williams, author of this month’s Rumpus Book Club selection, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty. Williams discusses the humor in her short story collection, being read to as…
Ryan Boudinot in SF
Rumpus columnist Ryan Boudinot will be all over San Francisco this week, accompanied by his newly released novel Blueprints of the Afterlife. There are two events to choose from, or…
Patrick Pineyro: The Last Book I Loved, Ulysses
The moment when a new book is begun it is a moment that vibrates, as potential energy (a writer’s wisdom distilled into a completed work, printed, bound, placed in your…
Imported Comedy
Playwright Alan Bennett set his sights on fiction in his new comedic collection, Smut.
The Rumpus Interview with Momus
Since the early 1980’s, the 51 year old Scottish musician/writer/provocateur Nicholas Currie, better known as Momus, has been releasing music (his latest album, Hypnoprism, was his 18th) to varying levels…
February’s Rumpus Book Club Pick
February’s Rumpus Book Club selection is A Very Minor Prophet by James Bernard Frost. Warm up with this excerpt from Hawthorne Books, and if you’re not yet on-board, consider joining…
SF State of Mind
At Art Practical, Larissa Archer reviews Everything Is Its Own Reward by Paul Madonna, Rumpus Comics editor and artist extraordinaire. “If there is a San Francisco state of mind—calm, unburdened…
Speech Fever
Ben Marcus’ fourth novel, The Flame Alphabet, uses well-worn myths as a way to expose and explore the pressing questions that we often forget thrum at the heart of our…
Messing with Memoir
When my memoir went out of print, it was as if someone had thrown a stray puppy onto my doorstep. Dazed, mangy, with a tendency to pee on the rug,…
Lit-Link Round-up
“What’s Next” predictions for the lit world over at the Center for Fiction, with wit and wisdom from the likes of Richard Nash, Lauren Cerand and Kevin Sampsell. One of…
Denied the Work of Natural Generation
Haunted by the paradoxes associated with Shakerism that both glorified and doomed it, Kirchwey uses the place of Mount Lebanon to explore a layering of spaces and themes that accesses…