The Last Book I Loved: Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
The books I love are those tangled and overflowing: their magic is the product of the trust the author puts in his talent.
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L’Abbé de l’Abbaye
Alexander Alexeieff‘s 1927 illustrations for Jean Genbach’s L’Abbé de l’Abbaye:
Triple Canopy Announces First Call for Proposals
Triple Canopy, the revered online magazine, which works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, will be commissioning ten projects…
David Foster Wallace’s Incandenza Comes to Life
The filmography of the fictional Wild Turkey drinking filmmaker and visionary tennis instructor at Enfield Academy, James Incandenza, the central character of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, will make an…
January 21st: ONE YEAR LATER in New York
The Rumpus and HTMLGIANT present ONE YEAR LATER, a celebration of the first anniversary of The Rumpus, on January 21, 2010. The night will feature readings by Rivka Galchen, Tao…
My Imaginary Interview with Elaine Showalter
In March of 2009, I wrote to Elaine Showalter on behalf of The Rumpus, saying she inspired me as a writer, editor, and feminist. She agreed to an interview, the…
Vintage Book Design in Poland
I had major help for this fourth post of Polish book covers: I pulled some from the book collection of my friends at hipopotam and some from a Polish antiquarian…
Notable New York, This Week 1/11 – 1/17
In New York this week Richard Price is interviewed by Philip Gourevitch, David Byrne presents Creation in Reverse, Joyce Carol Oates and Elaine Showalter chat over brunch, Tao Lin (who…
I Love Your Lies
Back in 1999, when I was a freshman in college, a friend of mine told me about a new movie he’d just downloaded on his computer that featured a bunch…
Can You Love a Non-Reader?
Friday, we linked to GIANT’s list of reasons writers should not date other writers, but Evan Maloney at The Guardian goes into the flip-side of that question: Can a reader date…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The books blogs always like to talk about the future, but this week was like some sort of official book blog crystal ball week, what with this new decade they…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
To bring in the New Year, we had one helluva week at Rumpus Books. Steve Almond confronted “Katie Roiphe’s Big Cock Block,” Joshua Mohr asked why we write reviews in…