I Think, Therefore I Am Back In Business
In what The New York Times‘ Patricia Cohen writes is “the Great Train Robbery of French intellectual life: thousands of treasured documents[…] vanished from the Institut de France in the…
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Where Does Your Fiction Belong?
BookFox notes an interesting pattern: “In the last few years, many prestigious literary journals have moved to a two-tier model for publishing: they maintain their print journal for the big-name…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The author of the forthcoming My Life with the Lincolns asks what happens when you type Abraham Lincoln into Etsy. The answer is pretty awesome. Anyone interested in fiction and the…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, Rumpus books reviewed a book of alternate versions of The Odyssey, novels by Jillian Weise and Heidi Durrow, and a book of poetry by D.W. Lichtenberg. Also, we…
Heart of Glass
Ali Shaw’s novel concerns a modern-day Midas, a cold and inhospitable island, and a young woman whose body is inexorably transforming.
“A Composite of Four Interviews”
“This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by…
Nightmare Trails Lead to Literacy
Nicholas Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982, whose ongoing project Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint we covered here, has decided to create a side project to help raise…
Servers vs. Chainsaws
“The carbon footprint of data center server farms — roughly equal to that of paper mills today — is set to double in the next five years. And those server…
New Yorkers in Poets & Writers
The March/April Poets & Writers has a couple of great pieces on some New Yorkers to make note of. An article on writer Sam Lipsyte, whose third novel, The Ask,…
Recording Hunter
“It was a sound person’s nightmare/fantasy: squawking peacocks, refrigerator motors, thunderstorms, bug zappers, ice machines, phone calls from people in prison, seemingly random bloodcurdling screams, and the general din of vice.” In…
Mutations of Meaning
A first novel by playwright Jillian Weise tackles the moral and ethical questions surrounding both medical research and human relationships.
“What is the worst sentence you ever wrote?”
Jami Attenberg: “It’s hard to pick just one. I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse, and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not…