The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Dreams, vignettes, hypotheticals, and poetry lay out alternate versions of Western literature’s founding epic.
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Gilliam Hearts Bulgakov
“Why do I keep running away from Mikhail Bulgakov? I’ve been on the run for years now. From the first time I was encouraged to read The Master and Margarita,…
245 Rules for Writing Fiction
In anticipation of Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, which comes out next month, The Guardian has put together a comprehensive list of rules for writing by writers like Margaret…
Amazon Gets Up a Creek in California
Last year I noted in Slate that Amazon’s been having it both ways for a while on state sales taxes — not paying any where they were not due, and…
Riding the Roller Coaster with Ganga Devi
Works by Ganga Devi (1928 – 1991), found in the book Ganga Devi: Traditions and Expressions in Mithila Painting by Jyotindra Jain.
The LA Times Book Awards
The LA Times has announced the finalists for their book awards, and we’re pleased that we’ve reviewed a number of them here at The Rumpus. I’m particularly proud that we…
Notable New York, This Week 2/22 – 2/28
This week in New York 2010: Whitney Biennial opens, Gigantic holds a launch party for Issue 2: Gigantic America, Anderbo Reading at KGB, Mary Karr talks with Philip Gourevitch, MOMA…
The Rumpus: One Year Later
While it is now one month later, we’d like to thank everyone who came out for ONE YEAR LATER, the Rumpus anniversary party co-presented by The Rumpus and sister-mag HTMLGIANT…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/22-2/28
This week: See Rumpus favorites Stephen Elliott and W. Kamau Bell at their respective performances on Sex and Black History Month, raise money for Bryant Elementary School at Wet Wednesday…
Take a Hike, or “Thoreau Was a Neuroscientist”
Stop reading this and go outside and take a walk somewhere nature-like. Right now. Okay, did you go? Good. Now you might actually pay attention to me.
Some Notes on Lyricism
“Like most people, I would rather be someone else. The prose this other self would write would be sharp and coiled, deadly like a snake; not all soggy and attenuated…