Features & Reviews
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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…
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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.…