Features & Reviews
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The World’s Largest Book Club
“What if everyone on Twitter read the same book at the same time and we formed one massive, international book club?” Jeff Howe (@CrowdSourcing) lays out his “scheme” to create the world’s largest book club using Twitter. “One Book, One…
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Loss of a Poet
National Book Award winning poet Ai (born Florence Anthony) passed away on Saturday at the age of 62. Ai “died unexpectedly of natural causes.” Her new collection, “No Surrender,” is slated to be published this fall. For more about the…
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As Above So Below
London-based illustrator Will Sweeney kindly shared these images from his new book, As Above So Below. Will is behind the comic Tales From Greenfuzz and a ton of cool stuff on his Alakazam label. The catalog of Swiss publisher Nieves…
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Naked Breakfast
Good Morning. Hungry? Why not listen to William S. Burroughs reading from Naked Lunch? Or how about viewing some of the Naked Lunch manuscript? Or pictures of different editions of the book since its publication in 1959? Or hell, how…
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dislocate on Jim Shephard on John Hawkes
Following his Appreciation of John Hawkes, which we ran here on The Rumpus, dislocate interviews novelist and short story writer Jim Shepard about the piece, as well as the universal shame of realizing which classics you’ve never read, the pros…
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King of a Hundred Horsemen
As with much French poetry, the idée fixe of King of a Hundred Horsemen concerns the problematics of desire, and several of the passages are so euphonic in the original that quoting from the translation may lessen the overall effect…
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Your Personal Clichés
Clichés are, by definition, old hat, but what if there’s a subtler version of the oh-so-enticing little literary buggers? Blogging for the Guardian, Peter Robbins pontificates on his own personal clichés, and how (although they may not realize it), many…
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The Best Metaphors Ever
“She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.” “It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.” “He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.”…
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iPerseus
“Perseus Books Group, a large independent publisher that also distributes works from 330 other smaller presses including Grove Atlantic, Harvard Business School Press, Zagat and City Lights Books, signed a deal last week with Apple, following five of the six…
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The Book of Andrew
“For all its political relevance, though, what I love most about The Book of Daniel is the writing, Doctorow’s high-wire act of structural contortion, his ventriloquism, and the slippery point of view he employs to bring this troubled and troublesome…
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ORBooks Walk Away From Amazon
“For every e-mail we get querying why our books are not available on Amazon, we get another saying how much our new approach is appreciated.” ORBooks has pulled its publications from Amazon.com, stating that doing business with the online retailer…
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Straight Outta Nebraska
In Jami Attenberg’s new novel, a woman flees her comfortable life and finds a mixed bag of possibilities in Sin City.