Features & Reviews
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Words After Death
“I am against the posthumous publishing of a late author’s work unless it can be proven without a doubt that posthumous publication is the express wish of the author. If it can’t be proven, then the default action should be…
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“Another of those long and agonising breakdowns.”
“For some days, of course, we hoped against hope that she had wandered crazily away and might be discovered in a barn or a village shop. But by now all hope is abandoned.” An archive, made public for the first…
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Suffocating in the Villa des Charmes
Alexander Alexeieff’s illustrations for Adrienne Mesurat by Julien Green, 1929:
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The Rumpus Original Combo: The Red Riding Trilogy
The Rumpus Review of the Red Riding Trilogy and a Conversation with Directors Julian Jarrold and James Marsh The Red Riding Trilogy, which recently opened in U.S. theatres, is both mesmerizing to watch and haunting to remember.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/22-3/28
This Week, tweet for a good cause at TwestivalSF 2010, stop by for just an hour or the entire day to hear sounds of all sorts at the Switchboard Music Festival, get your McSweeney’s fix with readings from Jessica Anthony…
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How Market Forces Affect Novel Length
A writer named Charlie Stross just posted a fascinating article on his blog about why novels are the length they are. The reasons have to do with market dynamics — costs faced by publishers and bookstores. In the Victorian era,…
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Treatise on Elegant Publishing
Wakefield Press launches this month with two titles from its Handbooks series (“the how-to manual reimagined: guidebooks on a variety of satirical, parodic, and quixotic subjects”): Treatise on Elegant Living and The Young Girl’s Handbook of Good Manners for Use…
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“Amusements of an Historical & Macabre Nature”
“Adele Griffin & Lisa Brown accept with Pleasure your very Kind & Gracious presence on our Site. Please enjoy the following Amusements of an Historical & Macabre nature. Refreshments will be served.” There are book websites and then there are…
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Damned If You Do, Panned If You Don’t?
In light of the recent Orange Prize short list, Jojo Moyes ruminates on the split themes of modern women’s fiction. Somewhat dark, serious subject matter such as Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible seems to dominate the field of formal literary…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/22 – 3/28
This week in New York a tribute to George Carlin, James Wood reads a book he’s never read before, Shya Scanlon gets other people to read his poems, NYC Twestival 2010, Huggabroomstik, Jeff Lewis and others cover songs by Major…
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“The pulp of 2010”
Jonah Lehrer laments a big problem with the social web: “The one shared feature that I’m most interested in is also a little disturbing: the tendency of the social software to quantify our social life. Facebook doesn’t just let us…
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On Graduate School in the Humanities
“(W)e must think of graduate school as more like choosing to go to New York to become a painter or deciding to travel to Hollywood to become an actor. Those arts-based careers have always married hope and desperation into a…