Features & Reviews
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Do Publishers Have the Upper Hand?
“With the impending arrival of digital books on the Apple iPad and feverish negotiations with Amazon.com over e-book prices, publishers have managed to take some control — at least temporarily — of how much consumers pay for their content.” The…
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Rick’s Kindle
“Why is the Kindle my enemy, you ask? Because I mostly write books, and when the list price of my book is $27.95, I make 15% of list price if it sells more than 15,000 copies. But if my book…
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Kailyn McCord: The Last Book I Loved, The Ticking Is the Bomb
An old professor from college writes me and asks for my snail mail address. It isn’t such a strange request – we have developed a kind of friendship since I graduated. I babysit his daughter on occasion; we meet at…
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California Dreaming
Eric Puchner’s first novel exposes the faultlines and frustrations beneath the shining American dream.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #22
JOHNNY TREMAIN’S HAND ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Johnny Tremain’s hand.
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The Rumpus Funny Women Interview with Julie Klausner
Some people say men aren’t funny. In her memoir I Don’t Care About Your Band, comedienne Julie Klausner says it a few times: (1) “I was tired of pretending I thought he was funny”; (2) “I knew I was funnier and smarter…
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“The future of literature is safe”
“I do believe that literature and storytelling has a safe future. The medium is still being negotiated, but I believe that we evolutionarily developed to speak and use language, and as an extension of that I think there is an…
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Stephen Elliott Interviews Stephen Elliott, Insults Fly
“Stephen Elliott: I don’t generally hook up with people when I first meet them. And also, when you’re on the road, I don’t know, it’s kind of awkward. What I long for when I travel isn’t sex, it’s intimacy. I…
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The Sunday Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
My relationship with the book blogs has hit a snag. Today, we got in a throw-down fight, and I came pretty close to breaking some china. It’s just that the blogs whine and worry and complain a lot, and they…
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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.