Features & Reviews
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Gilliam Hearts Bulgakov
“Why do I keep running away from Mikhail Bulgakov? I’ve been on the run for years now. From the first time I was encouraged to read The Master and Margarita, I have been pursued by keen film producers trying to…
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245 Rules for Writing Fiction
In anticipation of Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing, which comes out next month, The Guardian has put together a comprehensive list of rules for writing by writers like Margaret Atwood, Roddy Doyle, Geoff Dyer, Neil Gaiman, and Joyce Carol…
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Amazon Gets Up a Creek in California
Last year I noted in Slate that Amazon’s been having it both ways for a while on state sales taxes — not paying any where they were not due, and not paying any even where they were due:
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Why Me?
Heidi W. Durrow’s novel is both the story of a woman learning to negotiate biracial life and that of the lone survivor of a horrible tragedy.
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Riding the Roller Coaster with Ganga Devi
Works by Ganga Devi (1928 – 1991), found in the book Ganga Devi: Traditions and Expressions in Mithila Painting by Jyotindra Jain.
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The LA Times Book Awards
The LA Times has announced the finalists for their book awards, and we’re pleased that we’ve reviewed a number of them here at The Rumpus. I’m particularly proud that we got 3 of the 5 nominees for first fiction: Tinkers…
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Notable New York, This Week 2/22 – 2/28
This week in New York 2010: Whitney Biennial opens, Gigantic holds a launch party for Issue 2: Gigantic America, Anderbo Reading at KGB, Mary Karr talks with Philip Gourevitch, MOMA premieres documentary about Mikhail Khodorkovsky–Russia’s wealthiest man and one if…
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The Rumpus: One Year Later
While it is now one month later, we’d like to thank everyone who came out for ONE YEAR LATER, the Rumpus anniversary party co-presented by The Rumpus and sister-mag HTMLGIANT at Broadway East, a charming place where Chinatown meets the…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 2/22-2/28
This week: See Rumpus favorites Stephen Elliott and W. Kamau Bell at their respective performances on Sex and Black History Month, raise money for Bryant Elementary School at Wet Wednesday (much less dirty than it sounds), and be serenaded by…
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Take a Hike, or “Thoreau Was a Neuroscientist”
Stop reading this and go outside and take a walk somewhere nature-like. Right now. Okay, did you go? Good. Now you might actually pay attention to me.
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Some Notes on Lyricism
“Like most people, I would rather be someone else. The prose this other self would write would be sharp and coiled, deadly like a snake; not all soggy and attenuated like a garden hose, spritzing dewily, indiscriminately, over thorns and…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
At Maud, how much should philosophy and fiction have anything to do with each other? If you liked Julie Klausner’s interview here at The Rumpus and want more, she has another interview over at The New Yorker Book Bench. (Spoiler…