The Possessed
“I originally wanted to turn this material into a novel or fictionalized stories, but no one was enthusiastic about this, not even my wonderful editor. Publishing it as nonfiction, I…
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An Elizabethan Bestiary Retold
An Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold was published by Horse & Buggy Press in 1999, in an edition of just 1000 copies. The book primarily consists of Jeffery Beam’s poems (reworkings of…
Resident Bohemians: The Futurist, Stanley Kubrick
Soon after finishing Dr. Strangelove in 1964, Stanley Kubrick became fascinated with alien life forms and decided that he wanted to make a sci-fi movie. Not knowing much about it,…
Early Cormac
The 50th anniversary issue of the Phoenix, University of Tennessee’s literary magazine, will feature two uncollected works by Cormac McCarthy: “‘A Drowning Incident’ (1959) and ‘Wake for Susan’ (1960).” (via…
Sean Carman: The Last Book I Loved, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
The great thing about Russian literature is how strange it is. The characters in Dostoevsky are always breaking out in histrionics. They bustle about, shake their fists, and call each…
Black Thursday at Borders
“It took a little longer than employees thought, but the expected cuts in the store workforce at Borders began last week in what employees on various blogs are calling ‘Black…
Resident Bohemians: The Cricketer, Joseph O’Neill
In his much celebrated third novel, Netherland, Irish-born Joseph O’Neill writes: “Not counting the lobby, the Chelsea Hotel had ten floors. Each was served by a dim hallway that ran…
David Foster Wallace Archives
The archive of David Foster Wallace has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center.
Remembering St. Clair McKelway
“In the annals of injustice, as The New Yorker might phrase it, the obscurity into which St. Clair McKelway has fallen amounts to a literary crime.” Craig Seligman discusses his…
Postcards from the Edge
“Big American Trip addresses our insecurities as artists, lovers, and citizens who lack the ability to understand one another, regardless of which language we speak.”
When Does Heartbreak Become a Story?
Rumpus contributor (and reader at tonight’s Sleeping With Friends) Jami Attenberg discusses getting over heartbreak, and asks “when does it become just a story?”
An Unlikely Advocate
“As someone who long reaped a paycheck from the sale of books, Mr. Mod isn’t looking at the transition with any form of glee. Instead, he argues that it doesn’t…