Features & Reviews
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Bonnie B. Lee: The Last Book I Loved, Shadow Country
People get sick of hearing the same story over and over again. I assume it’s why healthy couples split off from each other at cocktail parties. Peter Matthiessen has not only told the story of Edgar Watson at least four…
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Notable New York, This Week 4/5 – 4/11
This week in New York The Rumpus throws an A Night Together with Sam Lipsyte, Michael Showalter, Lorelei Lee, Jeff Lewis, Jump-Off winners and more, Jamaica Kincaid and Rick Moody help collect Books for NY Schools, Richard Nash and Jim…
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All We Read Is Freaks
Who says that here, in the land of fluorescent signs, football mania, booming bass, and a Mouse with a compulsion to celebrate itself every few hours, a poet can’t still strike a nerve?
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A Great Piece of Writing That Isn’t Famous and Has Never Been Collected in a Single-Authored Book, and Why the Hell Not?!
The reader wishes the reader had ever had such a teacher, although the teacher doesn’t seem himself to think he’s all that much of a teacher.
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Steve Almond Confronts The Man, Wins
“If asking contributors to write for free then collecting 50K is good karma, what’s bad karma, Mark?” I know we’ve been linking to a lot of Rumpus contributor Steve Almond lately, but the guy’s on a truth-to-power roll. Also, he’s…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Happy Easter, everybody! A slideshow of writerly villains in film. (via) “Why Twitter is Gertrude Stein.” (via) I know it’s not hip right now, but I love me some “neuronovels.” Maybe this is why. (via Jessa Crispin at Bookslut, who…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, we’ve got some pretty excellent reviews, oodles of interviews, and a third installment of “An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America.” Come see.
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WILLA or Won’t Ya?
The following is a friendly message from Rumpus contributer Susan Steinberg (who is performing at the April Rumpus event in San Francisco) about WILLA, a new organization for and about women writers of literature: “Please visit the new WILLA (Women in Letters…
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The Rumpus Interview with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos is the author of Whip Smart, a new memoir about her four years working as a professional dominatrix in a Midtown Manhattan dungeon while enrolled full time at The New School University.
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Lose $15, Win a Grand?
The Sonora Review is offering a prize of $1,000 plus publication for the best story submitted to its Short Short Contest. With Joe Wenderoth judging, all you need to do is submit a story of up to 1,000 words along with…
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“H-U-S-T-L-E-R, Hustler.”
“2. ‘Fuck Armageddon…This is Hell’ by Bad Religion “Jehovah’s Witnesses believe God is killing over 7 billion people at any second who aren’t JWs. I actually believed in it when I was younger. The novel explores that theme. The song…