The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
With the year winding down, the book blogs have been ablaze with your typical speculations about the best of this and that. But perhaps there are less obvious threads out…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
Greetings my fellow aesthetes, epicurians, book junkies and all around fine people! I’m back in the Sunday guest side-car for today and next week while our legendary Seth Fischer prepares…
BLICKFANG – The Eye-Catching Covers of Weimar Berlin
Illus. and design by Oskar Garvens, book cover, Germany, 1925
John Crowley’s Little Lessons From The Masters
“He writes with a typewriter, beginning with the first page, with a situation he has been brooding about, and some sense of the implications or characters involved, but no real…
Water Causes Cancer And Other Truths
Time Magazine has already called it “The Decade From Hell.” (Couldn’t have been worse than the 1940’s?! Could it? I mean the 40’s had Hitler AND Stalin.) And if you…
Iranian Kid’s Books (Part 3)
Long Neck Gazelle by Djamsheed Sepahi , illustrated by Yoota Azargeen (thanks to roma cintilante for providing details!) I have no information about most of the books featured in this…
“Does integrity lie in failure?”
“All of Powell’s work is moved along by language: No one else talks to you this way. No one else asks you questions like this. But more brilliant than the…
Rick Moody (and Others) Talk Online Publishing
“Online publication, to me, is of interest because it’s cheaper and easier to produce, thus emboldening people who want to bring their vision out into the marketplace of ideas. But…
The Road from Infinite Jest to Oscar Wao
New York Magazine‘s Sam Anderson — who is, in my opinion, a top contender for a spot on IHateYouAndIWantYourLife.com — has written a fascinating piece outlining his view of the…
Continental Divide
Kurt Caswell’s memoir describes his year teaching in a place of violence, despair, doubt… and hope.
Notre Temps
All works by Frans Masereel from Notre Temps, 1952 From the collection of Richard Sica: