Reviewer and Reviewee
Shya Scanlon posted on Big Other about an extremely harsh review of Jorge Volpi’s Season of Ash written by Tom Bissell for the New York Times. The post led to…
Features & Reviews
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Painted Leviathan
Inspired by Zak Smith, who illustrated Gravity’s Rainbow page by page, Matt Kish has set out to illustrate every page of Melville’s Moby Dick. You can find more of Kish’s…
How to Destroy the Book: A Guide
Last month Cory Doctorow gave an eloquent and often-amusing speech at the National Reading Summit to an audience of “librarians, educators, publishers, authors and students” called “How to Destroy the…
The Last Book I Loved: Life, Inc.
Although the title of this book would seem to promise another critique of the practices of specific corporations we do business with every day (often for a lack of alternatives),…
Forum-Play
Did you miss Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott on Forum with Michael Krasny this morning? Fear not, you can listen to the excellent interview in its entirety (including when Krasny talks…
Lit Drift’s Free Book Friday
Lit Drift has another Free Book Friday contest coming up. This week they’re giving away a copy of Pasha Malla’s The Withdrawal Method. In the Rumpus review of Malla’s book…
Rushdie on Film and the Novel
“The movies are now old enough — we’ve had a century of movies — that you can actually look at a long period of time during which there has been…
Thoughts on The Salt Smugglers at TQC
“Nerval is remembered as a minor literary figure, an eccentric who walked his pet lobster on a ribbon in the Palais Royal, gabbled his poetry in doorways, read at night…
Artaud’s Tableaux
“Cliches anonymes, Six tableaux vivants realises a partir du Moine, de Lewis” Six tableaux vivants for The Monk by Matthew Lewis, a book Artaud translated and abridged.
The Truth Is Out There
Wormwood, Nevada, the latest novel by David Oppegaard, is the story of Tyler and Anna Mayfield, who transplant from Omaha, Nebraska, to their temporary home in central Nevada.
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 12/14-12/20:
This week in San Francisco: The last Monthly Rumpus of the year rocks The Makeout Room, cupcakes meet fine art at Project One Gallery, and Paul Madonna signs books, while…
What to Read
Laura Miller, staff writer at Salon as well as a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review, has come out with a new feature called What to Read.…