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“We have captured a most rare specimen of an extinct insect which was extremely popular at the beginning of the century.”
This second installment of my Soviet-era children’s book series features George Kovenchuk‘s 1974 illustrations for Klop (The Bedbug) by Mayakovsky. You can read a thorough summary of the famous 1929…
Thelma & Louise of Poetry
If ever two female poets were going to clutch hands and drive off a cliff together, it would be Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper.
Nicole DeWalt: The Last Book I Loved, The Voyeur
I came home from the library with The Road and climbed into bed to start reading. He joined me with a proposition: Let me read it first or I’ll never…
Reclusive Creator of Calvin and Hobbes Grants Rare Interview
After over two decades of reclusive behavior (the sort of behavior the late J.D. Salinger would have admired) comic genius Bill Waterson has finally responded to an interviewer’s questions. The…
Teenagers on Salinger
We keep reading tributes to Salinger by famous authors or, more worth noting, written by adults. But what about teenagers, the main readership of Catcher in the Rye? Over at…
Women, Snakes and Stalkers – South Asian Book Covers
These South Asian book covers come from Quinn Dombrowski’s blog Women, Snakes and Stalkers. Quinn has been photographing covers from the PK (Indo-Iranian languages and literatures) section of the University…
Joe Sacco Is Not a Graphic Novelist
“I’m a big fan of photographs and a big fan of prose writing, too. But one of the advantages of comics is that you’re drawing frame after frame after frame,…
A Book, A Library, A Murder
Rumpus contributor Craig Fehrman has an article running over at The Hartford Advocate about the controversy surrounding Brain McDonald’s In The Middle of the Night. McDonald’s book is a true crime novel…
The World Was Still There
John Haskell’s novel takes readers on a metaphysical journey through the mind of a Steve Martin-impersonator impersonator.
New Fiction from Roberto Bolaño
“I was going out with two women. That I do remember clearly. One of them was getting on a bit—she must have been about my age—and the other wasn’t much…
Gigantic Online Presents Work by Saša Stanišić
While the second print issue of Gigantic, a magazine of short prose and art, is only days away from its anticipated release, Gigantic has just published new and noteworthy work…