Features & Reviews
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
This week, Rumpus books reviewed a book of alternate versions of The Odyssey, novels by Jillian Weise and Heidi Durrow, and a book of poetry by D.W. Lichtenberg. Also, we had an incredible interview with Paula Fox.
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Heart of Glass
Ali Shaw’s novel concerns a modern-day Midas, a cold and inhospitable island, and a young woman whose body is inexorably transforming.
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“A Composite of Four Interviews”
“This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by the subject himself, who looks upon his own spoken words…
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Nightmare Trails Lead to Literacy
Nicholas Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982, whose ongoing project Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint we covered here, has decided to create a side project to help raise money for Proliteracy Detroit, a non-profit that is the largest…
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Servers vs. Chainsaws
“The carbon footprint of data center server farms — roughly equal to that of paper mills today — is set to double in the next five years. And those server farms are often powered by coal, which tends to be…
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New Yorkers in Poets & Writers
The March/April Poets & Writers has a couple of great pieces on some New Yorkers to make note of. An article on writer Sam Lipsyte, whose third novel, The Ask, is being published this month by FSG; and a conversation…
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Recording Hunter
“It was a sound person’s nightmare/fantasy: squawking peacocks, refrigerator motors, thunderstorms, bug zappers, ice machines, phone calls from people in prison, seemingly random bloodcurdling screams, and the general din of vice.” In September 2002 Michael Wiese spent “a night at Hunter S.…
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Mutations of Meaning
A first novel by playwright Jillian Weise tackles the moral and ethical questions surrounding both medical research and human relationships.
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“What is the worst sentence you ever wrote?”
Jami Attenberg: “It’s hard to pick just one. I know I have a problem with semi-colon abuse, and have written page-long sentences. Nobody needs to be reading page-long sentences, at least not written by me. What about, ‘He smiled quietly.’” Joshua Mohr:…
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Launch Party for Gigantic Issue 2: Gigantic America
Gigantic Issue 2: Gigantic America is hitting stands this week across the country, and the pond. Issue 2 features dialogues with Lydia Millet, Adrian Tomine and Sam Lipsyte, fiction from Robert Coover, Leni Zumas and Clancy Martin, and artwork by…
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Free Lipsyte
Author Sam Lipsyte has a new book coming out called The Ask. To celebrate the good folks at Farrar, Straus and Giroux are giving away signed copies of Lipsyte’s Home Land, Venus Drive, as well as The Ask, of course.…
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On Sawing Goethe
I received a wonderful email yesterday from illustrator Sophie Blackall. She kindly agreed to let me share that email, and her photos: