Features & Reviews
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Ryan Clark: The Last Book I Loved, Where I Was From
One of the best things about reading Joan Didion is her honesty, the fact that she hasn’t forgotten the uncertainty that comes from being young, or just how hard it can be to part truths from myth. Didion once wrote…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/15 – 3/21
This week in New York Keith Gessen and Elif Batuman talk, Guernica has a reading, Joanna Newsom sings and plays harp, Marcel Dzama appears, talks and signs books, The Moth has a Story Slam, Christopher Walken loses a hand and…
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One More Thing That Literature Is Good For
A few weeks ago, I went to a dermatologist to have something on my nose removed. He said less than two sentences to me, asked me one question he didn’t listen to the answer to, ignored my protests, had a…
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“The Mystery Box”
“I wept. For, however beautiful the sunlight, I had disrupted the natural order of things.” A.N. Devers tweets a short story about Daylight Savings.
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Too Many Choices
“I feel like an alcoholic pushed into a permanently stocked bar, and I can’t even taste the merlot because I’m trying to down a tequila and sip a martini at the same time. I’m dying to return to the mono-media…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“When is it okay to write about heartbreak?” (via) “Edward Gorey” covers the classics. (via) At Jacket Copy, all things publishing-oriented at SXSW. The British love words so much they had a festival! Margaret Atwood is going to sing in…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Lately, it’s been so crappy out I’ve been wondering what I did to offend the fates, but I think they’ve now forgiven me, because it is a beautiful spring day.
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Jason Epstein on Publishing’s Future
Jason Epstein started out as an editor and publisher in a now-vanished era — his first editorial job was at Random House in 1949 — and he was a co-founder of the New York Review itself and also the Library…
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Jennifer Gilmore
“It’s actually quite frightening to be an author and know the business side of publishing. I imagine it’s easier to be in Iowa and not know what’s going on with your book. If the industry had stayed the same, I…
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Getting Published
“What I’d like to ask you is if you have any reading suggestions for finding out about the ins and outs of book and magazine publishing.” The Millions answers with a list of resources to get started in publishing, but…
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Found in Translation
The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven, translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu, has won the 2010 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction.
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When Does Heartbreak Become a Story? (Part II)
“Even Joan Didion, who wrote one of the most beautiful books (in my small opinion) about one of the biggest life tragedies one can ever face, had to take time between the sadness and the writing. Didion’s tragedy may be…