Underground America: Permanent Anxiety
“The Arizona law is not the problem. The problem is that we continue, on all sides of the political spectrum, to not listen to those most directly affected by immigration…
Features & Reviews
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“Blood has its own syntax.”
“McKay reminds us that every language is a unique translation of a combination of desire and thought, both of which have complicated, individual histories.” Barbara Berman reviews Becka Mara McKay’s…
A Rich, Prickly Sense of Expansion
In A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, Becka Mara McKay reminds us that every language is a unique translation of a combination of desire and thought, both of which have…
Your Words Might Know You Better Than You Do
“I was seeing something about the human mind. I was seeing the author in the text in a way that people hadn’t seen the author in the text before.” Jed…
Google to Start Selling eBooks
In “late June or July,” according to the Wall Street Journal, Google will join the eBook fray along with Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble . Find out more about…
Lord of the Flugornas: More Vintage Swedish Book Covers
P-E Fronning of Martin Klasch shared more covers from his book collection.
“13 Don’ts”
“11. Don’t read more than 15 minutes. Any longer than that is a hostage situation.” Rumpus contributor Daniel Nester shares the lessons he learned while “writing, editing, marketing, and promoting”…
“A book about The First Book”
“There’s much at stake in The First Book. The first-time author wishes to make a good impression and, if things work out, to seduce the reader. The reader, for his…
From Old Notebooks
“As the writer wrestles with his book and his family, we reexamine our thoughts about the writer. It’s a performance in which writer and reader have equal billing.”
Steve Almond’s Bad Hair Contest
Want to win a free copy of Steve Almond’s excellent new book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life (read an excerpt here)? All you have to do is be…
Maud’s Notes on Book Blogging
“If you’d told me in 2002 that I would keep at it for so long or that so many people would know about this site or care what I had…
Pleasant Dreams
Some books are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and apparently others have greatness thrust upon them in the form of an Amazon gift card. This hasn’t gotten much play…