Features & Reviews
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Come catch up! Highlights from this week in Rumpus books are below the fold.
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LIVRENBLOG
I first featured Livrenblog back in January 2009. Since that time I’ve been ogling many more treasures from this wonderful French blog. Here is a taste of what you will find in their archives. Copying what I wrote back then:
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Patti Smith Reads Just Kids
Yesterday we published Blythe Sheldon’s review of Patti Smith’s Just Kids, her memoir about life with Robert Mapplethorpe. Now you can hear Smith herself read from the book, thanks to KQED‘s reading series podcast, The Writers’ Block.
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Timothy McSweeney
“Readers of this site and of McSweeney’s generally may be aware that this enterprise was named after a real man named Timothy McSweeney. […] We bring today the news that Timothy McSweeney passed away on January 24.” McSweeney’s has announced…
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Robert Walser’s Microscripts
The Center for the Art of Translation has an interview up with Susan Bernofsky, translator of Robert Walser’s novel The Tanners, among other works. She talks about the six volumes of Robert Walser’s miniaturized shorthand that has come to be…
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“Murse”
“Enjoy your final moments of freedom and independence. Go to movies as often as possible. Do a lot of things that you know are not going to be possible once you’ve got a baby around. Go to two movies in…
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Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex: Jason Mulgrew
And now, in the hopes you will make the same mistake, I am conducting the first of what I hope will be an endless series of interviews with former students who are now published writers.
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Writing While (Not) Loving, Loving While (Not) Writing
“Edmund Wilson encouraged his second wife Mary McCarthy’s first forays into fiction by shutting her in a room for three hours and asking her to write a story. Author Shirley Jackson’s husband Stanley Hyman, a literary critic and writer for…
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Outside of Society
Patti Smith’s memoir of her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe chronicles two “mutinous spirits” in the chaos of 1970s New York.
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Using Genre As A Tool
“But the idea that genre is a tool, not a prophecy goes beyond combating genre snobbery, I think — it’s actually helpful for writers to think about when crafting their next novel. Just because there’s this marvelous tool for helping…
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Are Printed Literary Journals Imperiled?
“For me, if there’s a piece of writing that I care about, I want to have the physical object,” says Brigid Hughes, editor of the literary journal A Public Space. “There’s a permanence to it, a different kind of permanence…
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Aim Ray Guns at Amazon
Citing Amazon’s recent hissy fit over its dispute with Macmillan Publishers’ over e-book pricing, The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America are removing all Amazon.com links from its website. The SFWA was founded in 1965 and is made up…