Launch Party for Gigantic Issue 2: Gigantic America
Gigantic Issue 2: Gigantic America is hitting stands this week across the country, and the pond. Issue 2 features dialogues with Lydia Millet, Adrian Tomine and Sam Lipsyte, fiction from…
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Free Lipsyte
Author Sam Lipsyte has a new book coming out called The Ask. To celebrate the good folks at Farrar, Straus and Giroux are giving away signed copies of Lipsyte’s Home…
On Sawing Goethe
I received a wonderful email yesterday from illustrator Sophie Blackall. She kindly agreed to let me share that email, and her photos:
Thousands of Authors Opt-out of Google Book Plan
Digitized books, whether they be in kindle form or otherwise, are more than just a fad, and although Google Books is growing by the day, many authors have recently chosen…
Live Rich, for a Good Cause
For one night next week, March 4, in support of literature, the arts and Canteen’s writing program for Harlem youth, Arnold Lehman and his wife Pam Lehman will open their…
The Ancient Book of Hip
The poems in The Ancient Book of Hip create a precise and evocative description of time and place; they celebrate that space, even as they have a witty undercurrent of…
The Most Mysterious Book Now Online
The Codex Seraphinianus — a mysterious book by an artist named Luigi Serafini, which is often described as seeming to be “a visual encyclopedia of an unknown planet” — has…
Henry Chinaski’s Stamp
Are you a fan of Charles Bukowski? Want to see him get his own stamp? Over at PetitionSpot some folks are trying to make that happen: “Charles Bukowski is uniquely…
2010 PEN/Faulkner Award Nominees Announced
The 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award nominees have been announced. They are: Sherman Alexie for War Dances Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna Lorraine M. López for Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories…
A Book About Aboutness
“So: End Zone isn’t really a book about football or a book about warfare or a book about football as metaphor for warfare. It isn’t even a book about the…
“Horses Aren’t Extinct”
“I don’t think paper has hit bottom by any means, but I also don’t think it will be a quick or simple fall. There will be bumps and twists and…
The Rumpus Long Interview with Paula Fox
"I can’t write about what’s going on in the next room, fiction. I can only write what’s going on in this room, reality. Of course one invents with reality also."