Features & Reviews
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #3
Betty Anne May, Age 80 Truth or Consequences, New Mexico “That man could turn me on by touching my little fingernail.”
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Staging A Beautiful Apocalypse
Today is the birthday of one of my very favorite living writers, Samuel R. Delany. (I spoke once here before about how I share with Junot Diaz an abiding love for Delany’s work.) All it took for him to become…
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Notables
For those of you in New York or San Francisco who are starting to make your weekend plans, don’t forget to check the Notable NYC or Notable SF, respectively, for all sorts of entertaining events. For example, tonight in New York?…
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Book Cover Missed Connections
“Such encounters are becoming increasingly difficult. With a growing number of people turning to Kindles and other electronic readers, and with the Apple iPad arriving on Saturday, it is not always possible to see what others are reading or to…
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The King and the Lioness
So Mark Twain’s personal life? Complicated: “Documents known as a ‘blackmail dossier’ that expose the intimate secrets of Mark Twain, the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, are to published for the first time. “The dossier, in which Twain describes…
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“Will the iPad Matter?”
Yesterday the question was posed, “Will the iPad help books go viral?” Well MelvilleHouse Publishing doesn’t think so. In fact, they’re wondering if the iPad will matter at all, predicting that “the Apple device and its accompanying iBookstore won’t be…
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The Jump-Off: Read with Sam Lipsyte
New York writers, win a chance to read your work alongside Sam Lipsyte at our NYC event on April 6. Lipsyte is one of our featured guests at A Night Together, an event The Rumpus is co-hosting with Tin House…
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The Rumpus Interview with K. M. Soehnlein
“The key is to remember a sex scene is a scene of dramatic action and psychological development. You need to pay attention to emotion and to a character’s self-awareness—or lack of self-awareness.”
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Soehnlein
Tomorrow we have an interview with K.M. Soehnlein, award-winning author of The World of Normal Boys. For those of you who live in San Francisco, Soehnlein will be reading from his latest book, Robin and Ruby, at Books Inc. in the…
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Books Going Viral?
“Plenty have predicted that Apple’s tablet will decimate Amazon’s dominance over the ebook world and how, together, the two companies are screwing the publishers with tough dealmaking. Far fewer prognosticators have considered how smaller companies–and, in turn, authors–are going to benefit…
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My New Job
“If you’re a fan of experimentation, silliness, and fucking–and what reasonable human being isn’t?–you’ll find things to like about My New Job.” Check out Evan J. Peterson’s review of Catherine Wagner’s latest.
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Erin Teresa Devlin: The Last Book I Loved, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
The last book that I truly loved was The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu. Sometimes I will pick up a few books at a time and see which one is the hardest to stop reading. I finish…