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n+Internet
Literary magazine n+1 is now online. The website will be “updated with new, usually web-only content at least once weekly.”
The End of Major Combat Operations
An excerpt from Nick McDonell’s first book of nonfiction, The End of Major Combat Operations, published by McSweeney’s.
The Rumpus Interview with Forrest Gander
“As a writer, I’m interested in trying to get to the complexity of experience. For me, that has led—in poetry—to counterpoint, polyrhythms, and clausal layering.”
Nick Lantz Gets Supersized
Don’t miss today’s Supersized Rumpus Combo featuring an interview with Nick Lantz, a review of his books, We Don’t Know, We Don’t Know and The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbor’s…
The Passing of an “Angry Young Man”
Alan Sillitoe, whose “novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and short story “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” (1959) were regarded as groundbreaking in their portrayals of the…
Some Animals Are More Equal than Others
Illustrations by Lev Tokmakov for Fairy Tales about Animals, 1973:
Disinclined to Mislead Anyone
Lantz forces us again and again to reexamine the way we see through such juxtaposition of facts as well as through the voices of characters who search for and experience…
Lightning Strikes Twice: The Rumpus Interview with Nick Lantz
How do you supersize a Rumpus Original Combo? That’s easy—just take a book review and an interview with the author, and add a Rumpus Original Poem to it!
“To me it just seems like a bunch of people calling one another fancy names.”
Jimmy Chen at HTMLGIANT admits that he gets “confused by all the kinds of editors there are.” So he has made a list; a hilarious list in which he guesses…
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes
David Grann compiles a decade of investigative profiles from The New Yorker and elsewhere in a compelling study of the dark side.