Features & Reviews
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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:
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Thousands of Authors Opt-out of Google Book Plan
Digitized books, whether they be in kindle form or otherwise, are more than just a fad, and although Google Books is growing by the day, many authors have recently chosen to opt-out of Google’s ever-expanding digital library. The dissenting authors…
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Live Rich, for a Good Cause
For one night next week, March 4, in support of literature, the arts and Canteen’s writing program for Harlem youth, Arnold Lehman and his wife Pam Lehman will open their Brooklyn Heights home for an intimate evening: Canteen Magazine’s Second…
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The Ancient Book of Hip
The poems in The Ancient Book of Hip create a precise and evocative description of time and place; they celebrate that space, even as they have a witty undercurrent of critique.
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The Most Mysterious Book Now Online
The Codex Seraphinianus — a mysterious book by an artist named Luigi Serafini, which is often described as seeming to be “a visual encyclopedia of an unknown planet” — has been placed online in its entirety. Back in 2007, Justin…
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Henry Chinaski’s Stamp
Are you a fan of Charles Bukowski? Want to see him get his own stamp? Over at PetitionSpot some folks are trying to make that happen: “Charles Bukowski is uniquely suited for this honor. For in addition to being an…
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2010 PEN/Faulkner Award Nominees Announced
The 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award nominees have been announced. They are: Sherman Alexie for War Dances Barbara Kingsolver for The Lacuna Lorraine M. López for Homicide Survivors Picnic and Other Stories Lorrie Moore for A Gate at the Stair (read The…
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A Book About Aboutness
“So: End Zone isn’t really a book about football or a book about warfare or a book about football as metaphor for warfare. It isn’t even a book about the cliché of football as metaphor for warfare. It’s a book…
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“Horses Aren’t Extinct”
“I don’t think paper has hit bottom by any means, but I also don’t think it will be a quick or simple fall. There will be bumps and twists and surprises on the road down. Print on paper will never…
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The Rumpus Long Interview with Paula Fox
“I can’t write about what’s going on in the next room, fiction. I can only write what’s going on in this room, reality. Of course one invents with reality also.”
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The Lost Books of the Odyssey
Dreams, vignettes, hypotheticals, and poetry lay out alternate versions of Western literature’s founding epic.