The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, we’ve got some pretty excellent reviews, a “Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex” interview, and an essay that must not be missed. Come check it out.
Features & Reviews
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The Resistance of Memory
Ander Monson attempts to move beyond “the singular authority of ‘I’ in nonfiction,” exploring new possibilities for the memoir form.
Rock and Roll
“With most of the shit that I write and put out there, it’s my hope that it gives readers the freedom to be really honest about their obsessions, to talk…
Mud Luscious Bookmark Contest
Have your work published on a bookmark. Mud Luscious Press, publisher of delectable pocket-size chapbooks and novellas from bright young writers, recently announced its bookmark contest. Regular readers know that…
Memories of Ice and Fire
Aydin Aghdashloo is an Iranian painter, author, art critic, art historian, and graphic designer. You can read more about him and view many more paintings at his website. Also see…
Hannah Edber: The Last Book I Loved, Asterios Polyp
Art and life seem to intersect at my alarming weakness for the archetypal dissatisfied middle-aged American male. In countless viewings, I’ve watched reverently as Annie Hall’s Alvie Singer mutters and…
Money, Schools and Sex
Thanks to Bloomberg.com, we now know how much Chad Harbach, the “Unemployed Harvard Man,” made on the sale of his novel, and how many copies of The Art of Fielding…
Celebrate The Anniversary Of A Wonderful Book
There is nothing quite like reading Little, Big, John Crowley’s epic and elegantly subtle fantasy novel about a New England family and their mystifying relationship with the Fairy World. In…
Faith in Withheld Meanings
What do nuclear waste, suicide, and Las Vegas have in common? John D’Agata searches for meaning in the heart of Yucca Mountain
Stuck Between Two Impossible Libraries
“Every librarian, every book collector, finds him or herself between these two mythical places—the Perfect Library of God and the Infinite Library of Babel, the one transcribed by Jerome, the…
If a Book Falls In a Forest…
“I love the ancient Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, which is mysterious, raw, brutal and profound. But I am also haunted by the story behind the story; by the fact that…
Google Books Hits Another Roadblock
“On Wednesday, the American Society of Media Photographers and other groups representing visual artists plan to file a class-action lawsuit against Google, asserting that the company’s efforts to digitize millions…