The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Whoops! MacMillian is in trouble with The World Bank for offering bribes to Sudanese officials in exchange for textbook contracts. (via Bookninja) “35 essential posthuman novels.” (via Largehearted Boy) On…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Welcome to Sunday, the day Rumpus Books rounds up all the awesome stuff we published this week. Come take a look for yourself.
A Modern Reader #1: Friending Dostoevsky
We all have reading habits. We read in bed, at the table, on the train. Perhaps you read standing up in your kitchen, waiting for your pasta water to boil.…
David Lipsky Excerpt
“Suicide is such a powerful end, it reaches back and scrambles the beginning. It has an event gravity: Eventually, every memory and impression gets tugged in its direction.” A powerful…
Shirley Hazzard and Richard Ford: A Conversation at the PEN World Voices Festival
Last Friday night, for about one hour, Richard Ford asked Shirley Hazzard questions about her life and her writing. It was part of the PEN World Voices Festival. It cost…
No One Belongs Here More Than My Therapist’s Wife
It’s funny, I love Miranda July’s stories but Gordon Haber at Bookslut is insightful about her varied titles: “We Are Vaguely Included seems to show the influence of Miranda July,…
The Black Minutes
A crime novel set in a fictional Mexican city delves into the unsolved murders of two decades.
Leafing Through Old Lit Magazines
Sometimes you read a story published almost a hundred years ago in a magazine and you ask yourself, “Would this stand a chance of getting published today?” These sentences are…
The Actual Book vs. The Imagined Book
“An unread book is all possible stories. It contains all possible characters, styles, genres, turns of phrase, metaphors, speech patterns, and profound life-changing revelations. An unread book exists only in…
DFW Profile from 1996
“In the online expanse of Wallace fans, I couldn’t find even a citation—much less a copy—of this profile. So, with the help of Yale’s ILL division, I tracked it down.”…