Features & Reviews
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Happy Sunday! You know what Sunday means, right? Below the fold, catch up with what Rumpus Books reviewed, excerpted, and loved this week.
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Fistfight Friday
Nicholas Sparks, author of such books as The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, was recently profiled by USA Today. Why do we know this? Because the article has author and Rumpus contributor Joshua Mohr in a bit of a…
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Guernica and Triple Canopy: Two Not to Miss
Two pieces of writing that caught my eye today were Bridget Potter’s essay “Lucky Girl” in Guernica, and Joshua Cohen’s “Thirty-Six Shades of Prussian Blue” in Triple Canopy. Potter’s startling essay relays her experience getting an illegal abortion as a…
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Crime Lit
“The best crime fiction today is actually talking to us about the same things big literary novels are talking about. They are talking about moral questions, taking ordinary people and putting them in extraordinary situations, and saying to the reader,…
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The Sun has Fallen into the Sack
Illustrations by Elzbieta Gaudasinska for The Sun has Fallen into the Sack by Jerzy Bieniecki (Poland, 1975). As you can see, the book was actually published in English translation — but only in Poland.
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An Oral History of Love in Contemporary America: Selections from Us #1
Brigitte Aiton, Age 44 New York, New York “How do you deal with the fact that the person you’re with might hate you?” It was the first summer we were together. We were twenty-three years old.
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The Heroic Return of the Baffler
After a hiatus of a few years, the intellectually-engaging, always interesting, often confrontational and downright maverick literary/cultural magazine The Baffler has returned! I just picked up my copy at the bookstore where I work. Most bookstores with a decent magazine…
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Sensible Worries About the Internet
“These new books share a concern with how digital media are reshaping our political and social landscape, molding art and entertainment, even affecting the methodology of scholarship and research. They examine the consequences of the fragmentation of data that the…
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In Defense Of Horror
“How certain are you, anyhow, that what you call ‘unpleasantness’ is not a necessary, even crucial, part of our experience? Maybe you should lock yourself up in your heart long enough to work out your actual relationship to matters like…
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Lightbulbs to Moons
“As lightbulbs are to the moon, first stories are to finished books.” The Morning News talks with author Philip Graham about publishing his first short story, writing dispatches for McSweeney’s, and being edited by a former student.
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Amazon Continues the eBook Fight
“Amazon.com has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree to a detailed list of concessions regarding the sale of electronic books, according to two industry executives with direct knowledge of the discussions.” The…
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“We are seeing renewed interest in the short story.”
Well here’s some good news for all you short fiction writers: “The Atlantic is going to start publishing fiction again.”