Features & Reviews
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Les Fleurs du Skull
Carlo Farneti’s illustrations for a 1935 edition of Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal. From the collection of Richard Sica:
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“Unoriginal Poetry Based on Junk”
D.A. Powell wrote – a few years ago now – a column for The Poetry Foundation in which he dabbles with the idea of street poetry (think along the lines of the tape poetry of Elvis Christ). Powell’s article was…
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The Rumpus Original Combo with Gabrielle Calvocoressi
“The opposite of transcendence (to me) is simply anyone who just makes pronouncements or qualifies themselves without doing the deep, ongoing work of inquiry.”
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“We have captured a most rare specimen of an extinct insect which was extremely popular at the beginning of the century.”
This second installment of my Soviet-era children’s book series features George Kovenchuk‘s 1974 illustrations for Klop (The Bedbug) by Mayakovsky. You can read a thorough summary of the famous 1929 play — not originally intended for children! — at SovLit.…
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Thelma & Louise of Poetry
If ever two female poets were going to clutch hands and drive off a cliff together, it would be Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Emma Cooper.
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Nicole DeWalt: The Last Book I Loved, The Voyeur
I came home from the library with The Road and climbed into bed to start reading. He joined me with a proposition: Let me read it first or I’ll never get around to it. I hesitated. I bought a different…
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Reclusive Creator of Calvin and Hobbes Grants Rare Interview
After over two decades of reclusive behavior (the sort of behavior the late J.D. Salinger would have admired) comic genius Bill Waterson has finally responded to an interviewer’s questions. The creator of the ubiquitous 6 year-old, Calvin, and his jungle…
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Teenagers on Salinger
We keep reading tributes to Salinger by famous authors or, more worth noting, written by adults. But what about teenagers, the main readership of Catcher in the Rye? Over at The New York Times’ Room for Debate a discussion panel…
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Women, Snakes and Stalkers – South Asian Book Covers
These South Asian book covers come from Quinn Dombrowski’s blog Women, Snakes and Stalkers. Quinn has been photographing covers from the PK (Indo-Iranian languages and literatures) section of the University of Chicago’s Regenstein library. She’s already photographed 1200!
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Joe Sacco Is Not a Graphic Novelist
“I’m a big fan of photographs and a big fan of prose writing, too. But one of the advantages of comics is that you’re drawing frame after frame after frame, so almost in the background scenes you can create this…
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A Book, A Library, A Murder
Rumpus contributor Craig Fehrman has an article running over at The Hartford Advocate about the controversy surrounding Brain McDonald’s In The Middle of the Night. McDonald’s book is a true crime novel about a terrible murder that occurred in the town of…
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The World Was Still There
John Haskell’s novel takes readers on a metaphysical journey through the mind of a Steve Martin-impersonator impersonator.